dusty miller vs lychnis

lychnis vs dusty miller

dusty miller and lychnis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, lychnis is a hypernym of dusty miller; that is, lychnis is a word with a broader meaning than dusty miller:

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

Other hypernyms of dusty miller include catchfly.

dusty miller (noun)	lychnis (noun)
herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant	mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone
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 dusty miller and lychnis

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