catchfly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkæt͡ʃ.flaɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]catchfly (plural catchflies)
- Any of several plants, mostly in tribe Sileneae, that have sticky leaves on which flies become stuck; especially, the silenes or campions.
- 1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 177:
- “What on earth did you put in that stuff?” “Bug-bane, barren-wort, penny-cress and blood-root, catchfly, toad-flax, nap-weed and wormwood,” said Catweazle.
Derived terms
[edit]- alpine catchfly (Silene alpestris)
- berry catchfly
- bladder catchfly (Silene latifolia)
- catchfly grass (Leersia lenticularis) (not in Sileneae)
- corn catchfly (Silene armeria)
- Dover catchfly (Silene nutans)
- dwarf catchfly (Silene armeria)
- forked catchfly, forking catchfly (Silene dichotoma)
- garden catchfly (Silene armeria)
- German catchfly (Lynchnis viscaria)
- Lobel's catchfly (Silene armeria)
- night-flowering catchfly (Silene noctiflora)
- nodding catchfly (Silene nutans)
- red catchfly (Silene dioica)
- rock catchfly (Silene caroliniana)
- sleepy catchfly (Silene antirrhina)
- sticky catchfly
- sweet william catchfly (Silene armeria)
- Swiss catchfly (Silene vallesia)
- western fringed catchfly (Silene nuda)
