Definitionn. any of various plants of the genus Centaurium
Last update: September 20, 2015
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In the American button-bush the heads are globular, in some species of teazel elliptical, while in scabious and in composite plants, as sunflower, dandelion, thistle, centaury and marigold, they are somewhat hemispherical, with a flattened, slightly hollowed, or convex disk. [Please select]
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They had never seen anything like the colossal centaury imported from the region of the Euphrates. [Please select]
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The common clary and the Babylonian centaury, with which I have stocked the harmas, shall be the harvest-fields; the reaper shall be the Diadem Anthidium, the inmate of my reeds. [Please select]
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Nor had they ever made use of the Babylonian centaury, which I was the first to introduce in order to cover my ungrateful stony soil with some little vegetation. [Please select]
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