Definition of Centaurium

1. Noun. Genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers.

Exact synonyms: Genus Centaurium
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Gentianaceae, Gentian Family, Gentianaceae
Member holonyms: Centaury

Lexicographical Neighbors of Centaurium

Cenozoic
Cenozoic era
Census Bureau
Centaur
Centaurea
Centaurea americana
Centaurea cineraria
Centaurea cyanus
Centaurea gymnocarpa
Centaurea imperialis
Centaurea moschata
Centaurea nigra
Centaurea scabiosa
Centaurea solstitialis
Centauria calcitrapa
Centaurium (current term)
Centaurium calycosum
Centaurium minus
Centaurium scilloides
Centaurs
Centaurus
Centennial State
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Center of the Universe
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centigrade thermometer
Central Africa
Central African
Central African Republic
Central African Republic franc

Literary usage of Centaurium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"CB Greater Centaury, with cut Leaves. 5. Centaurium majus ... Centaurium majus, folio molli acute laciniata, flore áureo magno, ..."

2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"... Centaurium, Pers. — The plant, after maceration in water for 12 hours, gives off a perceptible ..."

3. The Flora of Berkshire: Being a Topographical and Historical Account of the by George Claridge Druce (1897)
"E. Centaurium, Pers. Syn. i. 283 (1805% Lesser Centaury. Centaurium ... E. Centaurium occurs in all the bordering counties. ..."

4. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"... as the tube of the corolla, which is extremely Hender and membranous ; the limb is of a full pink, more delicate and narrow than that of C. Centaurium. ..."

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