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Definition of Centaurea scabiosa
1. Noun. Tall European perennial having purple flower heads.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centaurea Scabiosa
Literary usage of Centaurea scabiosa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"L. Centaurea scabiosa. L. [Britten & Holland.] BACKEN. vb. To retard, keep back.
[V. of Glos.] [F. of D.] [E.] BACKER. adv. Farther back. BACKFRIEND. sb. ..."
2. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1883)
"Plenty of the following flowers grew around -.—Centaurea scabiosa and ... A bee
of the same species paid five visits to Centaurea scabiosa, avoiding all ..."
3. The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells & Neighbourhood by Richard Deakin (1871)
"... a 5-cleft spreading limb ; Fruit oblong, compressed, Centaurea scabiosa.
with a deep cavity on one side at the base; Pappus dark brown unequal hairs. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1897)
"... especially those of Centaurea scabiosa, Carduus nutans, and Scabiosa ...
up all night in a vasculum with flower-heads of Centaurea scabiosa, showed, ..."
5. The Flowering Plants of Wilts: With Sketches of the Physical Geography and by Thomas Arthur Preston (1888)
"I believe I once found this on Carduus arvensis, but the ground was very hard,
and the root broke; the nearest specimen of Centaurea scabiosa was not less ..."
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