Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The marigold.

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

  • noun (Bot.) The marigold; a blossom of the marigold.

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Examples

  • The richest autumnal glory came from the cheerful marigold, the "golde" of Chaucer, and "mary-bud" of Shakespeare.

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

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