'Immortelle' definitions:
Definition of 'immortelle'
From: WordNet
noun
Mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere [syn: immortelle, Xeranthemum annuum]
Definition of 'Immortelle'
From: GCIDE
- Immortelle \Im`mor*telle"\, n.; pl. Immortelles. [F. See Immortal.] (Bot.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'immortelle'
From: GCIDE
- Everlasting \Ev`er*last"ing\, n.
- 1. Eternal duration, past or future; eternity. [1913 Webster]
- From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. --Ps. xc. 2. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bot.) A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as, the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle ({Xeranthemum anuum}) of the French, the cudweeds, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See Lasting. [1913 Webster]