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SILENE
A genus of caryophyllaceous plants, generally covered with a viscidsecretion by which insects are caught; catchfly. Bon Silene. See Silene, in the Vocabulary.
Origin: NL, fr. L. Silenus, the attendant of Bacchus.
Source: Websters Vocabulary