Definition of Centaurea scabiosa

1. Noun. Tall European perennial having purple flower heads.

Exact synonyms: Great Knapweed, Greater Knapweed
Generic synonyms: Knapweed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Centaurea Scabiosa

Cenchrus
Cenchrus ciliaris
Cenchrus tribuloides
Cenozoic
Cenozoic era
Census Bureau
Centaur
Centaurea
Centaurea americana
Centaurea cineraria
Centaurea cyanus
Centaurea gymnocarpa
Centaurea imperialis
Centaurea moschata
Centaurea nigra
Centaurea scabiosa
Centaurea solstitialis
Centauria calcitrapa
Centaurium
Centaurium calycosum
Centaurium minus
Centaurium scilloides
Centaurs
Centaurus
Centennial State
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Center of the Universe
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centigrade thermometer
Central Africa

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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