the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A name given to the garden-balsam and to some other species of the genus Impatiens (which see).
Word Usage
"The girls thought it was; as much as the balsamine blossoms were good for anything, or the brown butterflies with golden spots on their wings, that came and lived among them."