phlox

See also: Phlox

English

downy phlox ()

Etymology

From New Latin Phlox, from Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɒks/
• enPR: fläks, IPA^(key): /flɔks/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒks
• Homophones: flocks, Flox

Noun

phlox (countable and uncountable, plural phlox or phloxes)

1. Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox.

Translations

plant of genus Phlox

• Arabic: قبس m (qabas)
• Armenian: բոցենի (hy) (bocʻeni)
• Azerbaijani: floks
• Belarusian: флёкс m (fljoks)
• Bulgarian: флокс m (floks)
• Catalan: flox m
• Czech: plamenka f
• Estonian: floks, leeklill
• Finnish: leimu (fi)
• French: phlox (fr) m
• Georgian: ფლოქსი (ploksi)
• German: Flammenblume f, Phlox m
• Hindi: फ्लॉक्स m (phlŏks), पटुआ (hi) (paṭuā)
• Ido: floxo (io)
• Italian: flox m
• Japanese: フロックス (furokkusu)
• Navajo: tsídiidą́ą́ʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: floks m

  Nynorsk: floks m

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• Persian: فلوکس (fa)
• Polish: floks (pl) m, płomyk (pl) m
• Romanian: flox (ro) m
• Russian: фло́кс (ru) m (flóks)
• Samogitian: karklalis m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фло̏кс m

  Roman: flȍks (sh) m

• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: płomjenjowka f

• Spanish: flox m
• Swedish: flox c
• Tatar: ялкынчәчәк (yalkınçäçäk)
• Thai: ฟล็อกซ์ (flók)
• Ukrainian: флокс m (floks)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: флокс (uz) (floks)

  Roman: floks

• West Frisian: floks c, hjerstsering c

Further reading

• Phlox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phlox on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Phlox on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons