Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A corruption of chalcedony.
  • noun The popular name of the plant Lavandula Stœchas, or French lavender.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The French lavender (Lavandula Stœchas)
  • noun The goldilocks (Chrysocoma Linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The French lavender (Lawandula stachas).
  • noun The goldilocks Chrysocoma linosyris and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.

Etymologies

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Compare Latin cassidonium, French cassidoine. See chalcedony.

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Examples

  • The gold-bedropt cassidony, the fern, and sweet woodbine—

    Theocritus 1895

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