| xeranthemum | (n) any plant of the genus Xeranthemum native to southern Europe having chaffy or silvery flower heads with purplish tubular flowers |
| genus xeranthemum | (n) genus of annual densely hairy herbs of Mediterranean to southwestern Asia |
| immortelle | (n) mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere, Syn. Xeranthemum annuum |