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Centaury

noun
1.
Any of various plants of the genus Centaurium.
2.
Any plant of the genus Centaurea.



Related searches:
American centaury
broad leaved centaury
lesser centaury
seaside centaury
slender centaury
tufted centaury


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"Centaury" Quotes from Famous Books



... CENTAURY. The Tops. L. E. D.—This is justly esteemed to be the most efficacious bitter of all the medicinal plants indigenous to this country. It has been recommended as a substitute for Gentian, and, by several, thought to be a more useful medicine: experiments have also shown it ...
— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury
... the blue-bell of botanists, arrests the eye on every dry bank, rock, and wayside, with its beautiful cerulean bells. There too we behold wild scabiouses, mallows, the woody nightshade, wood-betony, and centaury; the red and white-striped convolvulus also throws its flowers under your feet; corn fields glow with whole armies of scarlet poppies, cockle, and the rich azure plumes of viper's-bugloss; even thistles, the curse of Cain, diffuse a glow of beauty over wastes ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 262, July 7, 1827 • Various


Words linked to "Centaury" :   Centaurea cineraria, genus Centaurium, basket flower, flower, broad leaved centaury, American centaury, knapweed, genus Centaurea, star-thistle, suffrutex, Centaurium, Centaurea americana, subshrub, caltrop, tufted centaury, Centaurea gymnocarpa, Centaurium scilloides, Centaurium calycosum, rosita, Centauria calcitrapa, Centaurium minus, lesser centaury, Centaurea, slender centaury, dusty miller, seaside centaury


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