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Definition of Sun marigold
1. Noun. Any of several South African plants grown for the profusion of usually yellow daisylike flowers and mounds of aromatic foliage.
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Dimorphotheca, Genus Dimorphotheca
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sun Marigold
Literary usage of Sun marigold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lady's Book of Flowers and Poetry: To which are Added a Botanical by Lucy Hooper (1860)
"Gerard styles it the sun marigold. In old authors, the name for the plant, which
is now more strictly and properly designated the Marigold, is Golds, ..."
2. Three Books of Occult Philosophy Or Magic by Willis F. Whitehead (1898)
"... to Jupiter, agrimony; to Mars, sulphur-wort; to the Sun, marigold; to Venus,
wound-wort; to Mercury, mullein; to the Moon, peony. ..."
3. Handbook for Shropshire and Cheshire by John Murray (Firm) (1879)
"... and Bidens cernua (nodding sun-marigold i. On the E. side of the slopes of
Bury Ditches is Walcot Park, the beautiful residence of the Earl of Powis, ..."
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