Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Immortelle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Immortelle \Im`mor*telle"\, n.; pl. {Immortelles}. [F. See
{Immortal}.] (Bot.)
A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as
the species of {Antennaria}, {Helichrysum}, {Gomphrena}, etc.
See {Everlasting}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
immortelle
n : mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers
having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran;
naturalized elsewhere [syn: {Xeranthemum annuum}]
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