Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Silene

Silene , noun

[New Latin, from Latin Silenus, the attendant of Bacchus.]

(Botany) A genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly.
Collocations (1)
Bon Silène , See Silène, in the Vocabulary.