Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several plants of the genus Eryngium of the parsley family, having spiny leaves and dense clusters of small bluish flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
eringo .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant of the genus Eryngium.
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- noun A
plant of thegenus Eryngium.
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- noun any plant of the genus Eryngium
Etymologies
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Examples
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In his hand he significantly carries a blue _eryngo_, called in German "Mannstreu."
Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907
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The Zonites, a rude clan, grazing on the heads of the prickly eryngo, despise all tender preliminaries.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Zonitis, the full-blown heads of the eryngo (_Eryngium campestre_); for Schaeffer's Cerocoma, the heads of the Îles d'Hyères everlasting
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Two Zonites, both visitors of the eryngo-heads during the heats of summer, are among the Meloidæ of my part of the country.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Here, in fact, on the pebbly ground of the wastelands, is the eryngo agaric (Pleurotus eryngii, D. C.), which has the same consistency as the other.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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No, for close beside them stand several eryngo-stems, whose sturdy clusters are the
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Scoliae arrive from the neighbouring fields, where they have been slaking their thirst on the eryngo-heads.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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I feed them on honey, placed in little drops on spikes of lavender, on heads of thistle, or field eryngo, or globe-thistle, according to the season.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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-- for some suppose the sprig of eryngo to signify that he was already betrothed to her.
Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907
chained_bear commented on the word eryngo
Gosh, I love these flowers.
"Nor did vegetables escape sugar's embrace: eryngo (sea holly), parsley and elecampane roots, green walnuts, lettuce or mallow stalks, borage, bugloss, alexanders, sweet potatoes and even carrot and parsnips were candied into soft, sticky-sweet suckets."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 107
January 9, 2017