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–noun

1.	any plant of the genus Phlox, of North America, certain species of which are cultivated for their showy flowers of various colors. Compare phlox family.

2.	the flower of this plant.

[Origin: 1595–1605; < ML, special use of L phlox < Gk phlóx a flame-colored plant, lit., flame. See phlegm, phlogistic

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n. pl. phlox or phlox·es
Any of various North American plants of the genus Phlox, having opposite leaves and flowers with a variously colored salverform corolla.

[Latin, a kind of flame-colored flower, from Greek, flame, wallflower; see bhel-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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phlox

1706, from L., where it was the name of a flower (Pliny), from Gk. phlox "kind of plant with showy flowers" (probably Silene vulgaris), lit. "flame," related to phlegein "to burn," phlegma "inflammation" (see phlegm). Applied to the N.Amer. flowering plant by Ger. botanist Johann Jakob Dillenius (1684-1747).

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phlox
noun
any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers

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Phlox

Fla"grant\, a. [L. flagrans, -antis, p. pr. of flagrate to burn, akin to Gr. ?: cf. F. flagrant. Cf. Flame, Phlox.]

1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.

The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. --Prior.

A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. --De Quincey.

Flagrant desires and affections. --Hooker.

2. Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.

A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. --Palfrey.

3. Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.

Syn: Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious.

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