moss campion

English

Noun

moss campion (plural moss campions)

Silene acaulis, a campion in the family Caryophyllaceae.
- 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 474:
  Huge masses of grey marble, or a dark granite, frowned above his head; whose crevices, here and there, afford a scanty subsistence to lichens and moss campion […] .

Translations

Silene acaulis

Icelandic: lambagras (is) n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fjellsmelle m or f

Nynorsk: fjellsmelle f

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