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Definition of Pearly everlasting

1. Noun. An American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pearly Everlasting

Literary usage of Pearly everlasting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"... THE pearly everlasting Teacher's Story These wraithlike flowers seem never to have been alive, rather than to have been endowed with everlasting life. ..."

2. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"The flowers are naturally yellow, but are bleached and dyed in various colors. They are not as beautiful as the Cape flowers. pearly everlasting ..."

3. Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1906)
"pearly everlasting—Antennaria margaritacea (Hook.). The abundance of the common pearly everlasting induced many of the backwoods settlers' wives to employ ..."

4. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"Thoreau writes of it in September : " The pearly everlasting is an interesting white at present. Though the stems and leaves are still green, ..."

5. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"pearly everlasting-FLOWER. Anaphalis margaritacea, Benth. ... The flowers of the pearly everlasting have a peculiarly pure pearly look before they are ..."

6. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"The flowers are naturally yellow, but are bleached and dyed in various colors. They are not as beautiful as the Cape flowers. pearly everlasting ..."

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