Definitions for chrysanthemum

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chrysanthemum chry·san·the·mum

Spelling: [kri-san-thuh-muh m]

IPA: /krɪˈsæn θə məm/

Chrysanthemum is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 28 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 30 points.

You can make 1683 anagrams from letters in chrysanthemum (acehhmmnrstuy).

Definitions for chrysanthemum

noun

1. any of several composite plants of the genus Chrysanthemum, as C. leucanthemum, the oxeye daisy, having white ray flowers with a yellow center.
2. any cultivated variety of the plant C. morifolium, native to China, and of other species of Chrysanthemum, notable for the diversity of color and size of their autumnal flowers.
3. the flower of any such plant.

Origin of chrysanthemum

1570-80; Latin Greek chrȳsánthemon, equivalent to chrȳs- chrys- + ánthemon flower, akin to ánthos; see antho-

Examples for chrysanthemum

Since it was early afternoon, Rinzler gave me a crash-course in “right drinking” over a pot of chrysanthemum tea.

The beauty of his soul is finer than any chrysanthemum, and it is flitting.

She had said: "chrysanthemum, when you walk it is like the hopping of a frog."

The chrysanthemum is the spoiled and petted darling of the floral world.

Her efforts were so successful that the newspapers referred to Twain's locks as a "chrysanthemum of white hair."

The chrysanthemum is acknowledged to be the queen of autumn.

He had on, as if for an occasion, a new coat with a flower in the buttonhole, a chrysanthemum.

Be on the lookout for black beetle on Aster and chrysanthemum.

A chrysanthemum on a longer stalk than the others bent its petals into the light.

chrysanthemum showing and growing form no exception to the rule.