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English
Etymology
From ragged + robin, probably because of the untidy appearance of its petals.
Noun
ragged robin (plural ragged robins)
- (UK) A type of wild campion (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi), in the family Caryophyllaceae, which grows across Europe and has pink flowers.
- 1919,Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91:
- He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
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