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Dusty miller   /dˈəsti mˈɪlər/   Listen
Dusty miller

noun
1.
Shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum.  Synonyms: Chrysanthemum ptarmiciflorum, silver-lace, silver lace, Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum.
2.
Stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves.  Synonyms: Cineraria maritima, Senecio cineraria.
3.
A plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust.  Synonyms: Centaurea cineraria, Centaurea gymnocarpa.
4.
Herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant.  Synonyms: Artemisia stelleriana, beach wormwood, old woman.
5.
An old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers.  Synonyms: gardener's delight, Lychnis coronaria, mullein pink, rose campion.






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"Dusty miller" Quotes from Famous Books



... obstinate old Dusty Miller! Why don't you own up that Ruthie's more good to you than ...
— Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies - The Missing Pearl Necklace • Alice B. Emerson

... fisherwives, followed by the factor. He had found a place on the eastern side of the village, where, jumping a low earth wail, he got into a little back yard, and was trampling over its few stocks of kail, and its one dusty miller and double daisy, when the woman to whose cottage it belonged caught sight of him through the window, and running out fell to abusing him in no measured language. He rode at her in his rage, and she fled shrieking into ...
— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald

... life, isn't thee? Don't remember me, but I do thee. Gave me a ride once after that little piebald nag thee swopped Oliver's calf for. Thee sees I know thee, if thee has forgot me and how my floury clothes hit the black jacket thee wore, that day, and dusted it well, 'Dusty miller' thee laughed and called me, sayin' that was some sort of plant grows in gardens. But I knew that. Dorcas has a whole bed of it under ...
— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond

... Hawkins to gather wild columbine on the high cliff above the river, known as Lover's Leap. When winter came these two sometimes went to Bear Creek, skating; or together they attended parties, where the old-fashioned games "Ring-around-Rosy" and "Dusty Miller" were the ...
— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine

... along with you," said Mercy, sharply. "You tell that ugly, dusty man— Dusty Miller, that's what he is— that I'm coming out to the Red Mill, whether he wants me ...
— Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill • Alice B. Emerson



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