silene
IPA: sɪɫˈin
noun
- (chemistry) a molecule containing a silicon atom which forms a double bond
- (organic chemistry) an organosilene, a molecule containing a silicon atom doubly bonded to a carbon atom
- (inorganic chemistry) a silicon analog of alkenes containing at least one silicon-silicon double bond.
- (botany) Any of several plants of the genus Silene - the campions
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Examples of "silene" in Sentences
- At the extreme ends were round pieces of bon silene roses and lilies of the valley.
- And I found what is professed to be a Zone-4-hardy raspberry-pink silene (catchfly).
- Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea' (creeping Jenny) to flow frontward, swirling in and around the silene.
- Cesta na Lombok nam trvala 24 hodin, nejdriv jsme jeli transferem do Sape na Sumbawe, je to jenom 70km, ale lode jsou tu silene pomale a trvalo to 8 hodin.
- {32} In speaking of the silene quinque vulneralis, on a previous page, I said that there was no absolute reason why it should not re-appear in the garden of the Victoria Hotel.
- Here the silene rears high its head with fringed corolla of scarlet; and there the wild gooseberry dazzles the eye with a perfect shower of tubular flowers of the same bright color.
- Hellebore -- the one-sided Pyrola, the Bladder Campion -- _silene inflata_, the sweet-scented yellow Mellilot, the white Yarran, the Prunella with blue labrate flowers the Yellow Rattle, so called from the rattling of the seeds.
- It is the Oporto silene (S. portensis), a curious growth, a lover of the sea-side dunes, which, though of Portuguese origin, as its name would seem to indicate, ventures inland, even as far as my part of the country, where it represents perhaps a survivor of the coastal flora of what was once a
- He discovered the liquid light of her dark eyes in the rippling darkness of the streams; the lilies recalled the faintly tinted paleness of her cheeks; the silene roses, scattered throughout the hedges, called forth the remembrance of the young maiden's rosy lips, and the vernal odor of the leaves appeared to him like an emanation of her graceful and wholesome nature.
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