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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of composite plants of the tribe Calendulaceæ, distinguished by the thick, hard, and wingless achenia of the ray-flowers, the disk-flowers being frequently all sterile.

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  • noun Any of the genus Osteospermum of subshrubs.

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From the genus name.

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