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- noun
safflower
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Prof. Ascherson first called my attention to the extremely anciently cultivated plant, the safflor (_Carthamus tinctoris_, Fig. 15), a thistle plant whose flowers were employed by the ancients as a dye.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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