Si*le"ne (?), n. [NL., fr. L. Silenus, the attendant of Bacchus.] Bot.
A genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly.
Bon Silene. See Silene, in the Vocabulary.
© Webster 1913.
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