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Immortelle - 3 dictionary results

im⋅mor⋅telle

[im-awr-tel]
–noun
an everlasting plant or flower, esp. Xeranthemum annuum.

Origin:
1825–35; < F, n. use of fem. of immortel immortal; see -elle
im·mor·telle   (ĭm'ôr-těl')   
n.  Any of various plants, such as species of the genera Helichrysum, Xeranthemum, and Erythrina, having flowers that retain their shape and color when dried.

[French, from feminine of immortel, immortal, from Old French; see immortal.]

Immortelle

Im`mor*telle"\, n.; pl. Immortelles. [F. See Immortal.] (Bot.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting.
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