Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus of herbs and subshrubs: African daisy.
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- noun herbs and subshrubs: African daisy
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Examples
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The ‘sunset’ theme of hot colors and jam packed plantings is maintained as the tulips, wallflowers, aquilegias and arctotis of spring are switched out to the verbascums, red hot pokers, cannas, crocosmias and dahlias of summer.
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This leaves your pots free for summer arctotis or dahlias to take you through to autumn tulip planting again.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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It's arctotis and survives with minimal water, but looks dead except in the rainy season.
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