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Centaury

noun

Any of various plants of the genus Centaurium.

Any plant of the genus Centaurea.

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American centaury

broad leaved centaury

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... Sometimes, to give a variety to our amusements, the girls sung to the guitar; and while they thus formed a little concert, my wife and I would stroll down the sloping field, that was embellished with blue bells and centaury, talk of our children with rapture, and enjoy the breeze that ...

— The Vicar of Wakefield • Oliver Goldsmith

... summer sweetness. The campanula rotundifolia, the hare-bell of poets, and 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 ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 262, July 7, 1827 • Various

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