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 orcudweed .
Etymologies
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Compare Latin cassidonium, French cassidoine. See chalcedony.
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Examples
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The gold-bedropt cassidony, the fern, and sweet woodbine
Theocritus 1895
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