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phlox Bot.|flɒks|
[a. L. phlox (Plin.), a. Gr. ϕλόξ a plant (prob. Silene), lit. flame. Taken into Bot. as a generic name by Dillenius.]
A North American genus of herbaceous (rarely shrubby) plants (family Polemoniaceæ), with clusters of salver-shaped flowers of various colours, usually showy: many cultivated forms are found in gardens.
[1601Holland Pliny II. 92 The Panse, called in Latine Flammea, and in Greeke Phlox, I meane the wild kind onely.] 1706Phillips, Phlox,..a Flower of no Smell, but of a fine Flame-colour. 1788Rees Chambers' Cycl., Phlox, lychnidea, or bastard lychnis, in Botany, a genus of the pentandria monogynia class. 1856Bryant Maiden's Sorrow iii, There, in the summer breezes, wave Crimson phlox and moccasin flower. 1866Brande & Cox Dict. Sc. etc. II. 887/1 The garden Phloxes being all productions of the florist, and of a most ornamental character. 1895Mrs. H. Ward Bessie Costrell i. 8 Phloxes and marigolds grew untidily about their doorways.
b. attrib., as phlox family, phloxworts (Lindley), names for the family Polemoniaceæ; phlox-worm, the larva of an American moth, Heliothis phlogophagus, which feeds upon phloxes.
1846Lindley Veg. Kingd. 635 Order ccxliii. Polemoniaceæ, Phloxworts. 1863J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §952 Polemoniaceæ, the Phlox family. 1898Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. xiii, Among the geraniums, phlox-beds, and French marigolds. |