phlox

See also: Phlox

English

Etymology

From New Latin Phlox, from Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /flɒks/
• (General American) enPR: fläks, IPA^(key): /flɔks/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒks
• Homophones: flocks, Flox

Noun

phlox (countable and uncountable, plural phlox or phloxes)

1. Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox.

Derived terms

• creeping phlox
• Drummond's phlox
• moss phlox
• mountain phlox
• phloxlike
• phlox worm
• woodland blue phlox

Translations

plant of genus Phlox

Arabic: قبس m (qabas) Armenian: բոցենի (hy) (bocʻeni) Azerbaijani: floks Belarusian: флёкс m (fljoks) Bulgarian: флокс m (floks) Catalan: flox m Chinese: Mandarin: 天藍繡球 / 天蓝绣球 (tiānlán xiùqiú) Czech: plamenka f Estonian: floks, leeklill Finnish: leimu (fi) French: phlox (fr) m Georgian: ფლოქსი (ploksi) German: Flammenblume f, Phlox m Greek: φλόγα (el) f (flóga) Hindi: फ्लॉक्स m (phlŏks), पटुआ (hi) (paṭuā) Ido: floxo (io) Italian: flox m Japanese: フロックス (furokkusu) Latin: phlox f Navajo: tsídiidą́ą́ʼ Norwegian: Bokmål: floks m Nynorsk: floks m Persian: فلوکس (fa) Polish: floks (pl) m, płomyk (pl) m Romanian: flox (ro) m Russian: флокс (ru) m (floks) Samogitian: karklalis m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: фло̏кс m Roman: flȍks (sh) m Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: płomjenjowka f Spanish: flox m Swedish: flox c Tatar: ялкынчәчәк (yalqençäçäk) Thai: ฟล็อกซ์ (flók) Ukrainian: флокс m (floks) Uzbek: Cyrillic: флокс (uz) (floks) Roman: floks West Frisian: floks c, hjerstsering c

Further reading

• Phlox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phlox on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Phlox on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɔks/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

phlox m (uncountable)

1. phlox

Further reading

• “phlox”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.