a plant of the pink family, typically having pink or white flowers with notched petals, found in both Eurasia and North America 剪秋罗
Genera Silene and Lychnis, family Caryophyllaceae 麦瓶草属及剪秋罗属,石竹科
语源
mid 16th cent.: perhaps related to champion. The name was originally used for the rose campion, whose name in Latin (Lychnis coronaria) and Greek (lukhnis stephanōmatikē) means 'campion fit for a crown', and which was said in classical times to have been used for victors' garlands