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Definition of Field scabious
1. Noun. Perennial having bluish-lilac flowers; introduced in the eastern United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Scabious
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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