Phlox Definition

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phloxes
noun
Any of a genus (Phlox) of chiefly North American plants of the phlox family with opposite leaves and white, pink, red, or bluish flowers.
Webster's New World
adjective
Designating a family (Polemoniaceae, order Solanales) of dicotyledonous plants, including Jacob's ladder.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Polemoniaceae.

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Singular:
phlox
Plural:
phloxes

Origin of Phlox

  • Latin a kind of flame-colored flower from Greek flame, wallflower bhel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Phlox Sentence Examples

  • Wild phlox filled the air with a heavenly scent that rivaled lilacs.

  • Phlox divaricata Blue phlox divaricata Blue phlox Semi evergreen, grows to just over a foot high with lavender blue flowers.

  • In the garden phlox was still blooming, smelling like a perfumed soap.

  • The most commonly grown phlox in winter is Phlox subulata or creeping phlox.

  • Annuals that have been sown in the greenhouse or hotbed may be planted out, and seeds of such sorts as mignonette, sweet alyssum, Phlox Drummondii, portulaca, &c., may be sown in the beds or borders.

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