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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  immortelle 
  n  :  mostly  widely  cultivated  species  of  everlasting  flowers 
  having  usually  purple  flowers;  southern  Europe  to  Iran; 
  naturalized  elsewhere  [syn:  {Xeranthemum  annuum}] 

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