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Definition of Fennel flower
1. Noun. Nigella of Spain and southern France.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fennel Flower
Literary usage of Fennel flower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1735)
"С. В. Р. Narrow-leav'd Fennel-Flower, with a large fingle blue Flower. f. ...
Candy Fennel- Flower. Ail theft Plants may be propagated by ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"Fennel-flower oil ... G.), also called nigella oil, is obtained by distillation
from the seed of the fennel-flower, Nigella sativa, L., a plant indigenous ..."
3. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals. by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"THE ROMAN, OR DAMASCUS NIGELLA, OR COMMON fennel flower. ... and garden fennel-flower,
which appears the most appropriate name, from its leaves resembling ..."
4. Flora historica: or, The three seasons of the British parterre historically by Henry Phillips (1829)
"That of fennel-flower is now nearly obsolete, although it gives a better idea of
the plant than any other English name, since the blue petals of this flower ..."
5. Hortus Kewensis: Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1789)
"Great double Fennel-flower. Nat. of the So\fth of Europe. Cult. 1570. Label, adv.
329. ... Fennel-flower. Nat. of Spain and the South of France. Cult. 1629. ..."
6. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"Devil Great-double Fennel-flower, coarctata. y Nigella caule ... Dwarf Fennel-flower.
Nat. of the South of Europe. Cult 1570. ..."
7. The Prophecies of Isaiah: A New Translation with Commentary and Appendices by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1884)
"27 For fennel-flower is not threshed with a sledge, nor is a cart-wheel rolled
over the cummin, but fennel-flower is beaten out with a staff, ..."
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