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centaury::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | flower |
| Has types | centaurium scilloides, tufted centaury, lesser centaury, rosita, seaside centaury, slender centaury, broad leaved centaury, centaurium minus, centaurium calycosum |
centaury::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | subshrub, suffrutex |
| Has types | dusty miller, caltrop, centaurea americana, centaurea cineraria, centaurea gymnocarpa, centauria calcitrapa, basket flower, knapweed, star-thistle |
Examples of centaury
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Pink centaury, blue heath milkwort, straw-coloured wood sage and white eyebright struggle to survive.
From the guardian.co.uk
Purple-tufted vetch, agrimony, harebells, golden rod, centaury, wild strawberries, and evening primrose.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
It gets no ground to make comparison between elections of Yuan one hundred years ago and Xi a centaury later.
From the economist.com
A solitary stem of pink flowering centaury, woven into a sprig of heather still in bloom, presents a visual puzzle.
From the guardian.co.uk
The heath's edges are lined with blue scabious, occasional patches of pink centaury catch the eye, and a white flower we do not recognise brings us to a standstill.
From the guardian.co.uk
From Greek medical science, Roman army medics inherited a wide knowledge of the medicinal properties of plants and herbs e.g. centaury, which was effective in healing wounds and eye diseases.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Any of various plants of the genus Centaurium
- Centaurium (formerly Erythraea) is a genus of 20 species in the gentian family (Gentianaceae), tribe Chironieae, subtribe Chironiinae. The genus was named after the centaur Chiron, famed in Greek mythology for his skill in medicinal herbs. It is distributed across Europe and into Asia.
