Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several herbs of the genus Centaurium, especially a Eurasian species (C. erythraea) that has clusters of pink flowers and has long been used in herbal medicine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The popular name of various plants, chiefly of the knapweed, Centaurea nigra.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the
Erytheræa Centaurium and theChlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the flowering plants in the genus Centaurium.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any plant of the genus Centaurea
- noun any of various plants of the genus Centaurium
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A solitary stem of pink flowering centaury, woven into a sprig of heather still in bloom, presents a visual puzzle.
Country diary: New Forest Graham Long 2010
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Time is the most valuable things in the twenty first centaury no doubt.
Traffic Jam is a cry in the wilderness to the government of Bangladesh 2010
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Even in the really bright pink flowers such as rosebay willowherb, blue sneaks in to add a trace of purple as it does in wild thyme and centaury.
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Time is the most valuable things in the twenty first centaury no doubt.
Traffic Jam is a cry in the wilderness to the government of Bangladesh 2010
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As 20th centaury history tells us, twice allowing the placators inatialy to get their way has resulted in disaster on global proportions.
Boycotting the Olympic Games Peter Troy 2008
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As 20th centaury history tells us, twice allowing the placators inatialy to get their way has resulted in disaster on global proportions.
Archive 2008-07-01 Peter Troy 2008
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The fact that Israel has been under constant attack from anti-Semitic Muslim Arabs for over half a centaury is obviously seen by the BBC as well deserved.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The fact that Israel has been under constant attack from anti-Semitic Muslim Arabs for over half a centaury is obviously seen by the BBC as well deserved.
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Mohammad is perfect- that requires them to believe the earth is flat, the sky is a bowl held up by pillers, etc (they do become competent engineers in spite of such unscientific Islamic beliefs) or believe Islamic medicine is infallible because Mohammad said black cumin cures every disease except death (and other 7 centaury medical knowledge had not prevented Muslims to become competent with western medicine.)
Frank Talk, and Warnings, in a Saudi Desert - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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But these are very gentle; alyppus, dragon root, centaury, ditany, colutea, which Fuchsius cap. 168 and others take for senna, but most distinguish.
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