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Dusty miller

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Noun
  1. 1
    A formulaic phrase for a miller, related to the dust generated in the milling process. idiomatic

    "Hey, the dusty miller, / And his dusty coat! / He will win a shilling, / Ere he spend a groat. / Dusty was the coat, / Dusty was the colour; / Dusty was the kiss, / That I gat frae the miller."

  2. 2
    an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of several species of plants with leaves of a dusty appearance: Centaurea cineraria, Jacobaea maritima, Artemisia stelleriana, Spyridium parvifolium, and Silene coronaria, syn. Lychnis coronaria.
  4. 4
    herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant wordnet
  5. 5
    a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust wordnet
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  1. 6
    stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves wordnet
  2. 7
    shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum wordnet

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