Definition of Field scabious

1. Noun. Perennial having bluish-lilac flowers; introduced in the eastern United States.

Exact synonyms: Scabiosa Arvensis
Generic synonyms: Scabiosa, Scabious

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Scabious

field of regard
field of study
field of view
field of vision
field officer
field pansy
field pea
field pennycress
field planes
field poppy
field press censorship
field ration
field restriction
field sandbur
field scabious (current term)
field seam
field shaping coils
field shift
field shifts
field soybean
field spaniel
field sparrow
field speedwell
field sport
field strength
field strength unit
field strip
field survey
field tent

Literary usage of Field scabious

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

1. The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines by Nicholas Culpeper (1814)
"Common field Scabious groweth up with many hairy, soft, whitish green leaves, ... There is another sort of field scabious different in no- thing from the ..."

2. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"GREAT field scabious. Stem 0—18 inches high. Leaves all ovate-lanceolate and undivided, or nearly so. Heads of flowers hemispherical, button-like, ..."

3. Contributions Towards a Fauna and Flora of the County of Cork by J. R. Harvey, Thomas C. Power, John D. Humphreys, Cuvierian Society of Cork (1845)
"FIELD-SCABIOUS. 349. K. arvensis, Coult. Common Field-scabious. About Glasheen, Ballinlough, and in corn fields.—very common. 156. SCABIOSA, Linn. SCABIOUS. ..."

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