A composite plant (Helichrysum Stœchas).

The everlasting plant Helichrysum stoechas, which has yellow flowers and somewhat woolly stems and leaves. Now historical and rare.

(more fully golden mothwort) a kind of everlasting, Helichrysum stoechas, reputed to protect clothes against moths.

an everlasting flower; spec. Helichrysum stoechas.

†(a) the everlasting plant Helichrysum stoechas, which has bright yellow flowers (obsolete); (b) (chiefly Jamaican) the tropical American plant wand…

the yellow-flowered everlasting plant Helichrysum stoechas; cf. golden cudweed n. (a).

= mothwort n.

The Gold-flower (Heliochrysum Stœchas). Obsolete.

any of various plants, chiefly belonging to the family Asteraceae, having papery flower heads which keep their shape and colour when dried; the…

Frequently with distinguishing word. Any of various plants, chiefly belonging to the family Asteraceae, having papery flower heads which keep their…

Botany. A large genus of composite plants, having mostly yellow flowers, of persistent character, whence called Everlastings or Immortelles.

In plural. An African plant of the family Asteraceae (Compositae) having yellow flowers (possibly the South African shrub Chrysocoma coma-aurea…

= immortelle, n. Obsolete.

A plant of a genus of composites of the Mediterranean region, having flower-heads with dry chaffy bracts of a purplish or whitish colour; the genus…

a name for the Xeranthemum; also called ‘everlasting’.

A name for various composite flowers of papery texture (esp. Helichrysum orientale, and other species of Helichrysum, Xeranthemum, etc.) which…

= everlasting, n. 2; esp. Helichrysum bracteatum, a perennial herb of the family Compositæ, native to Australia, whose variously coloured flowers…