Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of cynaroid Compositæ with a thistle-like habit, remarkable for having its one-flowered heads crowded in dense terminal clusters resembling the ordinary flower-head of the order.
- noun A genus of Madagascan insectivorous mammals, of the family Centetidæ, containing the sokinah, E. telfairi.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun genus of Mediterranean and Eurasian herbs: globe thistles
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Examples
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I wish my echinops would be as tall and full as last year, but last year the grashoppers devoured them, especially, and most are dead or 1-2′ tall only and hidden by the coneflowers.
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I did buy some echinops with a very similar look and they are fixing to bloom.
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Purple Haze is an explosive close up of an echinops flower bursting into bloom.
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I'm not worried about things like pennisetum, miscanthus, caryopteris, sages, echinops and other plants with hardy constitutions.
A Study in Contrasts 2009
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The landscape design software of antidote safekeeping is to babirussa the echinops to tulle your chaenopsis to module that grudge sixpence for your napoleon or anovulant.
Rational Review 2009
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