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Campion vs Tampion - What's the difference?

campion | tampion |

As nouns the difference between campion and tampion

is that campion is any flowering plant of the genus genus: Lychnis while tampion is a wooden plug, or a metal or canvas cover for the muzzle of a gun, a cannon or other piece of ordnance when not in use; a stopper; a bung.

campion

English

(wikipedia campion) (Lychnis) (Silene)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any flowering plant of the genus .
  • Any flowering plant of the genus Silene .
  • *1878 , Gerard Manley Hopkins,
  • *:Then over his turnèd temples—here—
  • *:Was a rose, or, failing that,
  • *:Rough-Robin or five-lipped campion clear
  • *:For a beauty-bow to his hat

    • tampion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * tampeon * tompion

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wooden plug, or a metal or canvas cover for the muzzle of a gun, a cannon or other piece of ordnance when not in use; a stopper; a bung.
  • (music) A plug for the upper end of an organ pipe.

    • See also

    * silencer

    References

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