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dusty miller, 
    1. Plant Biology[Bot.]
      • any of several composite plants, as Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, or the beach wormwood, having pinnate leaves covered with whitish pubescence.
      • See rose campion. 
    2. Sport[Angling.]a type of artificial fly used chiefly for trout and salmon.
    • 1815–25

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dusty miller n
  1. Also called: snow-in-summer a caryophyllaceous plant, Cerastium tomentosum, of SE Europe and Asia, having white flowers and downy stems and leaves: cultivated as a rock plant
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