IMMORTELLE - Definition

Pronunciation:		`imor'tel
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere

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	Synonyms:	Xeranthemum annuum

	See Also:	everlasting, everlasting flower, genus Xeranthemum

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Im`mor*telle"\, n.; pl. {Immortelles}. [F. See {Immortal}.] (Bot.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of {Antennaria}, {Helichrysum}, {Gomphrena}, etc. See {Everlasting}.