Centaurea

Word CENTAUREA
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Definitions and meanings of "Centaurea"

What do we mean by centaurea?

Any of the flowering plants in or formerly in the genus Centaurium.

Any of diverse other plants:

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The word "centaurea" in example sentences

Sanguis upupoe cum melle compositus et centaurea, &c. Albertus. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Blue cornflower, centaurea cyanus, volunteers with a stipa tenuissima at the right. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“They are centaurea,” Luke explained, “a form of cornflower.” ❋ Mariah Stewart (1995)

Here one walks beside deep, grassy trenches, which appear to continue without end, along the forest level; farther, the wild mint and the centaurea perfume the shady nooks, the oaks and lime-trees arch their spreading branches, and the honeysuckle twines itself round the knotty shoots of the hornbeam, whence the thrush gives forth her joyous, sonorous notes. ❋ Various (N/A)

She heard a voice within her saying to the tall, vaulted ash, "Inspire me!" to the little rose-colored centaurea of the wayside, "Teach me a charm to cure the harm I have done!" ❋ Various (N/A)

-- Border, Oxalis tropæoloides; center, blue heliotrope, blue ageratum, or Acalypha marginata; cross about the center, Thymus argenteus, or centaurea; scallop outside the cross, blue lobelia; corners, inside border, santolina. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The _sentori_ (_centaurea_) for instance -- plentiful there, with its sweetly pretty mauve flower -- when boiled in water gave a bitter decoction good for fever. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

Those which now made the best show of bloom were the star-thistle centaurea and _ononis repens_. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)

Chelsea Flower Show 2011: Daily Telegraph garden is a modern classic Cleve West in the Daily Telegraph garden he created Planting at the front of the Daily Telegraph garden Drystone wall and concrete column in the show garden, left, and a thistle-like centaurea Blood red Dianthus cruentus in the Daily Telegraph garden Stephen Lacey 12:00PM BST 23 May 2011 ❋ Unknown (2011)

Flowering plants include centaurea, cranesbills, linaria, knautia and sanguisorba - all hand-mixed and hand-sown. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It bounced playfully off the open, over-polished lid of the baby grand piano, scattered the too-blue hues of a cut glass bowl of centaurea cyanus in a dancing pattern across the ceiling, and fell on the protective glass doors of the large, crammed bookcases on the far wall, providing glimpses of the treasures inside: a Second Folio, the Beardsley-illustrated edition of Malory's ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dwarf forms of centaurea, especially the Florence series, with their 10 to 20 inch height and naturally compact, bushy growth habits, are good choices for edging a garden or filling out a container. ❋ Unknown (2009)

_centaurea calcitrapa_, whose spines are avoided like those of a hedgehog by people who walk with bare feet. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)

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