| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  fl ks |
| 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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