catchfly vs dusty miller

dusty miller vs catchfly

catchfly and dusty miller both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
catchfly	Yes	No	No	No
dusty miller	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dusty miller is a hyponym of catchfly; that is, dusty miller is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than catchfly:

catchfly: mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone
dusty miller: an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers

Other hyponyms of catchfly include cuckoo flower, Lychins floscuculi, Lychnis flos-cuculi, ragged robin, Lychins chalcedonica, maltese cross, scarlet lychnis, gardener's delight, Lychnis coronaria, mullein pink, rose campion.

catchfly (noun)	dusty miller (noun)
mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone	herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant
any plant of the genus Silene	shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
	stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves
	a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust
	an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers

Difference between catchfly and dusty miller

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