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Dusty miller

noun

Shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum. Synonyms: Chrysanthemum ptarmiciflorum, silver-lace, silver lace, Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum.

Stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves. Synonyms: Cineraria maritima, Senecio cineraria.

A plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust. Synonyms: Centaurea cineraria, Centaurea gymnocarpa.

Herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant. Synonyms: Artemisia stelleriana, beach wormwood, old woman.

An old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers. Synonyms: gardener's delight, Lychnis coronaria, mullein pink, rose campion.

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"Dusty miller" Quotes from Famous Books

... life, isn't thee? Don't remember me, but I do thee. Gave me a ride once after that little piebald nag thee swopped Oliver's calf for. Thee sees I know thee, if thee has forgot me and how my floury clothes hit the black jacket thee wore, that day, and dusted it well, 'Dusty miller' thee laughed and called me, sayin' that was some sort of plant grows in gardens. But I knew that. Dorcas has a whole bed of it under ...

— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond

... obstinate old Dusty Miller! Why don't you own up that Ruthie's more good to you than ...

— Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies - The Missing Pearl Necklace • Alice B. Emerson

... corn, millions of eggs and skeins of linen and woollen yarn have been bartered at Belfield Green by the country folks, in exchange for rum, molasses, tea, coffee, salt, and codfish, enough to freight the royal navy. Time was when folks came twenty miles to Belfield post-office, and when a dusty miller and his men, at the old red mill standing on the brook at the foot of the valley, took toll from half the grists in Hillsdale County. But that was long ago, when people who lived twenty miles away from Hartford went to the city scarcely twice in a dozen ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

Words linked to "Dusty miller" : bush, shrub, mullein pink, genus Senecio, wormwood, lychnis, Tanacetum, Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum, Senecio, genus Artemisia, centaury, composite plant, composite, genus Tanacetum, catchfly