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Scolymus

noun
1.
Small genus of thistlelike herbs of the Mediterranean region.  Synonym: genus Scolymus.



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Scolymus hispanicus
Cynara scolymus


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"Scolymus" Quotes from Famous Books



... Scolymus flowers, i.e., in hot weather or summer ("Op. et dies," 582). This plant crowned with its golden flowers is abundant throughout Sicily."—HOGG'S Classical Plants of Sicily. There is the Fish-bone Thistle (Chamaepeuce diacantha) ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe


Words linked to "Scolymus" :   genus Scolymus, Compositae, family Asteraceae, asterid dicot genus, family Compositae, golden thistle, Cynara scolymus, aster family, Asteraceae


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