Definitions for Centaurea

Centaurea cen·tau·re·a

Spelling: [sen-tawr-ee-uh]
IPA: /sɛnˌtɔr i ə/

Centaurea is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 344 anagrams from letters in Centaurea (aaceenrtu).

Definitions for Centaurea

noun

  1. any of numerous composite plants of the genus Centaurea, having tubular flowers in a variety of colors. Compare cornflower (def 1), knapweed.

Origin of Centaurea

New Latin (Linnaeus) by suffix change from Medieval Latin centauria; see centaury, -ea

Examples for Centaurea

Artemisiæ one or two, centaurea spinosa, Salsola cordifolia and aphylla?

There, as in the Bakhtiari country, the people stack the centaurea alata for winter fodder.

centaurea (Cornflower), all shades of blue; three feet; blooms three months if kept cut.

centaurea (Bachelor's Button) should especially have an entire bed to itself.

The stacks of such winter fodder as celery and centaurea alata, and those of kiziks for fuel, are larger than the dwellings.

centaurea spinescens, Linaria, Joussa, and one or two Astragali.

Give the Coleus about six inches of lee-way, also the centaurea.

centaurea or cornflower, the bachelor's button or ragged sailor of old gardens, is in the front rank of the worthies.

In centaurea cyanea, the disposition of the limb of the ray is such that the incomplete part or the fissure is outside.

Some cultivation was observed, but as usual weedy, abounding with two species of centaurea.

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