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Scabious

noun

Any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa. Synonym: scabiosa.

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... tyres. The bye roads and lanes are often narrow, winding, and worn deep especially at the foot of the hills, so that the banks get a fair amount of moisture and carry a dense vegetation. Among the profusion of flowers you can find scabious, the bedstraws, vetches, ragwort, {111} figwort, and many a plant rare in other places, like the wild orchids; while the cornfields are often yellow with charlock. In the hedgerows are hazels, guelder roses, maples, dogwood, all intwined with long trails of bryony and traveller's joy. In the ...

— Lessons on Soil • E. J. Russell

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Words linked to "Scabious" : field scabious, sweet scabious, pincushion flower, mournful widow, Scabiosa atropurpurea, genus Scabiosa, flower, Scabiosa arvensis