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ragged robin

ragged robin noun: a type of wild campion (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi), in the family Caryophyllaceae, which grows across Europe and has pink flowers.

Noun

ragged robin (plural ragged robins)

  1. (UK) A type of wild campion (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi), in the family Caryophyllaceae, which grows across Europe and has pink flowers.
    • Paul came back and threaded daisies in her jet black hair, big spangles of white and yellow, and just a pink touch of ragged robbin.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 6”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
    • He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.1919,Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91

ragged robin meaning in Tamil

ragged robin in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of ragged robin

pluralragged robins
alternative formragged robbin
alternative formragged-robin

Origin of ragged robin

From ragged + robin, probably because of the untidy appearance of its petals.

Questions about ragged robin

What does ragged robin mean?
Ragged robin means a type of wild campion (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi), in the family Caryophyllaceae, which grows across Europe and has pink flowers.
What is ragged robin in Tamil?
Ragged robin in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Ragged robin meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ragged robin?
Ragged robin is a noun.
What is the plural of ragged robin?
The plural of ragged robin is ragged robins.

Words near ragged robin in the dictionary

  1. ragged out
  2. ragged red fibers
  3. ragged right
  4. ragged robbin
  5. ragged robbins
  6. ragged robin
  7. ragged robins
  8. ragged sailor
  9. ragged sailors
  10. ragged school
  11. ragged schools

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ragged robin (page history and authors); ragged robin (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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