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Scabious   Listen
noun
Scabious  n.  (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected.
Sweet scabious.
(a)
Mourning bride.
(b)
A daisylike plant (Erigeron annuus) having a stout branching stem.





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"Scabious" Quotes from Famous Books



... habits are still unknown, might correspond in size with either the larva or the pseudochrysalis in question are the Twelve-pointed Mylabris and Schaeffer's Cerocoma. I find the first in July on the flowers of the sea scabious; I find the second at the end of May and in June on the heads of the Iles d'Hyeres everlasting. This last date is best-suited to explain the presence of the parasitic larva and its pseudochrysalis in ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre
... which she had consigned them after the midday dinner. A small oil-lamp had been lit, and through the open windows afterglow and moonrise streamed in to mingle with its light. There was a pot of flowers on the table—purple scabious, and tall cow-parsley, gathered from the orchard, where no one had yet had time to cut the ...
— Harvest • Mrs. Humphry Ward


Words linked to "Scabious" :   Scabiosa atropurpurea, scabiosa, genus Scabiosa, pincushion flower, mournful widow


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