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phlox noun[ U ] uk /flɒks/ us /flɑːks/ a North American plant with brightly coloured flowers: You can usually rely on phlox to provide a wonderful display of colour. Our back garden is scented with roses, phlox, and peonies. I planted lots of phlox so that I could enjoy their scent the following autumn. We wandered through a rock garden of tiny pale-blue phlox. The helenium and phlox that we planted in our garden last year are now providing welcome colour. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Flowers & flowering plants aconite adam-and-eve aeonium African daisy agapanthus edelweiss eglantine elderflower elephant ear erythronium locoweed loosestrife lords-and-ladies lotus love-in-a-mist sedum sego lily self-heal senecio sensitive plant |