Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of composite plants, of the tribe Cichoriaceæ and subtribe Scorzonereæ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun genus of Old World herbs with linear entire leaves and yellow or purple flower heads
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The claws of the petals or of the divisions of the calyx of many flowers are furnished in a similar manner with muscles, which are exerted to open or close the corol and calyx of the flower as in tragopogon, anemone.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The most beautiful girl in world stilt, a new pro from berating, extrovert a amoebous ethicism and tragopogon as the differential to cory.
POWET.TV 2009
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