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Definition of cyphel in English: cyphel(also mossy cyphel) noun ˈsʌɪf(ə)l A low-growing European mountain plant of the pink family, which bears small greenish flowers. Minuartia sedoides, family Caryophyllaceae Example sentencesExamples - An ascent of Tom Buidhe over Meikle Kilrannoch reveals the breathtaking flowers of alpine catchfly as well as clumps of cyphel.
- Arctic-alpines also dominate here, usually moss campion and alpine lady's mantle, and sometimes cyphel.
- As the day was improving all the time, we carried on upwards, slowly ascending Barkeval, on whose slopes moss campion, northern rock cress, stone bramble, and mossy cyphel and starry saxifrage were found.
- Climb the Storr mountain and you will find a range of Arctic and Alpine plants: arctic clubmoss, mossy cyphel, purple saxifrage and Iceland purslane amongst others.
- Even the mountain tops had carpets of Mountain Azalea, Moss Campion and Cyphel.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting the houseleek): apparently from Greek kuphella 'hollows of the ears'. |