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Definition of Centaurium
1. Noun. Genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Gentianaceae, Gentian Family, Gentianaceae
Member holonyms: Centaury
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centaurium
Literary usage of Centaurium
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 (1754)
"CB Greater Centaury, with cut Leaves. 5. centaurium majus ... centaurium majus,
folio molli acute laciniata, flore áureo magno, ..."
2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"... centaurium, Pers. — The plant, after maceration in water for 12 hours, gives
off a perceptible ..."
3. The Flora of Berkshire: Being a Topographical and Historical Account of the by George Claridge Druce (1897)
"E. centaurium, Pers. Syn. i. 283 (1805% Lesser Centaury. centaurium ... E.
centaurium occurs in all the bordering counties. ..."
4. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"... as the tube of the corolla, which is extremely Hender and membranous ; the
limb is of a full pink, more delicate and narrow than that of C. centaurium. ..."
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