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Definition of Bachelor's button

1. Noun. An annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers.

2. Noun. Tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color.

Medical Definition of Bachelor's button

1. A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena). Bachelor's buttons, a name given to several flowers "from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons, anciently worne in this kingdom", according to Johnson's; but by other writers ascribed to "a habit of country fellows to carry them in their pockets to divine their success with their sweethearts." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bachelor's Button

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