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cushion pink

noun

  1. a low-growing mountain plant, Silene acaulis, of Europe and North America, having deep pink to purplish, solitary flowers and forming mosslike patches on rocky or barren ground.


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Origin of cushion pink1

First recorded in 1860–65

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