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Definition of Lesser centaury
1. Noun. Common European glabrous annual centaury with flowers in dense cymes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lesser Centaury
Literary usage of Lesser centaury
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D. by Thomas Sydenham (1850)
"Or. as follows: R Conserve of garden scurvy-grass, Conserve of Roman wormwood,
aa Jj; Extract of gentian, Extract of mugwort, Extract of lesser centaury, ..."
2. Mackenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts by Colin MacKenzie (1853)
"Take of gentian root, sliced, 3 Ibs. ; leaves and flowers of the lesser centaury,
each 8 ounces; infuse the whole in fi quarts of proof spirit and ..."
3. An Epitome of the Reports of the Medical Officers to the Chinese Imperial by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon (1884)
"... of each one ounce ; root of creeping birthwort or in its stead of the long
birthwort, tops of the lesser centaury, seeds of the carrot of Crete, ..."
4. Lang's German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied by Hugo Lang, Milton Kayton Meyers (1913)
"Myriapoda Tausendgüldenkraut, и. lesser centaury Tausendgüldenkraut-extrakt, m.
extract of lesser centaury Tautomerie,/. tautomerism Tax, m. yew (tree) ..."
5. A Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia:: Being a Treatise on Pharmacology in by Samuel Frederick Gray (1821)
"Several sorts of flowering tops, as those of lesser centaury, ... Periwinkle,
tops of lesser centaury, the excrescence of the dog- rose called ..."
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