Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, natural order Valerianaceæ, distinguished from the true valerian by having a spur to the corolla and a single stamen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus of southern European herbs and subshrubs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun genus of southern European herbs and subshrubs
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I have a beautiful patch of rudbeckia, complemented by echinacia and some gooseneck loosestrife and of course the faithful centranthus in red and white in the perennial bed, as well as some lobelia syphaliticus unfortunately named for the belief that it cured that affliction, but a lovely tall spiky pale blue flower.
Garden notes intertext 2006
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To the right of them sprang up the slim fraxinella, the centranthus draped with snowy blossoms, and the greyish hounds-tongue, in each of whose tiny flowercups gleamed a dewdrop.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871
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