Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of gamopetalous plants, of the order Dipsaceæ, the teasel family.
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- noun any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Photograph by Tara Donne for The Wall Street Journal, Food Styling by Martha Bernabe, Prop Styling by Angharad Bailey Mixing rosemary, dill, mint, white allium and scabiosa Step One Using a mix of leggy and dense herbs—rosemary, yellow flowering dill, mountain mint—build a framework of textures and fragrances.
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I chose white Queen Anne's lace, pink cosmos, purple butterfly bush, and blue scabiosa.
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Conversely, some of Oudolf's perennials are chic enough for Sissinghurst, the cultish Kentish garden made by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson — especially a wine-dark variety of scabiosa, or pincushion flower, that bloomed on the High Line during this spring's inaugural festivities.
Up in the Park Filler, Martin 2009
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Seed heads of scabiosa dot the terrain along with celosia volunteers.
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Seeds from Semi of the annual scabiosa atropurpurea produce red, purple and near black flowering plants.
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Thus, it is well known that the creeping thistle is hurtful to oats, _erigeron acre_ to wheat, _scabiosa arvensis_ to flax, &c.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832 Various
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Then there are to be eschscholtzias, dahlias, sunflowers, zinnias, scabiosa, portulaca, yellow violas, yellow stocks, yellow sweet-peas, yellow lupins -- everything that is yellow or that has a yellow variety.
Elizabeth and Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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Love the scabiosa, it’s flowering in my garden too in a lovely deep reddish black.
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* cosmos, pincushion flower (scabiosa), Russian sage and sage.
Sun Journal 2010
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Vitriolurii lW; t\s. ffenwi-l. a) Verbena; b) Centaurea scabiosa.
Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen Nemnich, Philipp Andreas, 1764-1822 1793
treeseed commented on the word scabiosa
"Scabiosa is a genus in the teasel Family Dipsacaceae of flowering plants. Many of the species in this genus have common names that include the word scabious; however some plants commonly known as scabious are currently classified in related genera such as Knautia and Succisa; at least some of these were formerly placed in Scabiosa. Another common name for members of this genus is pincushion flowers."
_Wikipedia
January 24, 2008