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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
phlox
 
PRONUNCIATION:  flks
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. phlox or phlox·es
Any of various North American plants of the genus Phlox, having opposite leaves and flowers with a variously colored salverform corolla.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin, a kind of flame-colored flower, from Greek, flame, wallflower. See bhel-1 in Appendix I.
 
 
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