(n)mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere, Syn.Xeranthemum annuum
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n.; pl.Immortelles [ F. See Immortal. ] (Bot.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting. [ 1913 Webster ]