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stock-gillyflower

stock-gillyflower noun: any of the herbaceous or half-shrubby plants in the genus Matthiola of the family Cruciferae, having their flowers in racemes, and generally beautiful and fragrant; stocks.

Noun

stock-gillyflower (plural stock-gillyflowers)

  1. Any of the herbaceous or half-shrubby plants in the genus Matthiola of the family Cruciferae, having their flowers in racemes, and generally beautiful and fragrant; stocks.

Forms of stock-gillyflower

pluralstock-gillyflowers
alternative formstock-gilliflower

Questions about stock-gillyflower

What does stock-gillyflower mean?
Stock-gillyflower means any of the herbaceous or half-shrubby plants in the genus Matthiola of the family Cruciferae, having their flowers in racemes, and generally beautiful and fragrant; stocks.
What part of speech is stock-gillyflower?
Stock-gillyflower is a noun.
What is the plural of stock-gillyflower?
The plural of stock-gillyflower is stock-gillyflowers.

Words near stock-gillyflower in the dictionary

  1. stock-and-trade
  2. stock-bow
  3. stock-bows
  4. stock-boy
  5. stock-boys
  6. stock-gillyflower
  7. stock-gillyflowers
  8. stock-in-trade
  9. stock-job
  10. stock-jobber
  11. stock-jobbers

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