red catchfly
now rare
noun
A Eurasian campion of rocks and crags, Lychnis viscaria, which has spikes of bright pink flowers and often dark sticky bands around the stem beneath each node; compare red German catchfly; also called sticky catchfly.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in John Lightfoot (1735–1788), Church of England clergyman and naturalist.
- thermolysis
- thermolytic
- thermometer
- thermometric
- thermometrical
- thermometry
- the R months
- thermonuclear
- thermophile
- thermophilic
- thermophotovoltaic
- thermopile
- thermoplastic
- Thermopylae
- thermoregulate
- thermoregulation
- thermoregulatory
- thermos
- thermos bottle
- thermoset
- thermosetting
- thermos flask
- thermosphere
- thermostable
- thermostat