Crossword-Solution: CENTAUREA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Centaurea | n. | A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa). |
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| SPINY flower-headed plant | 3 answers |
| Cornflower | 7 answers |
| yellow-flowered plant | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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ETAER
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greedy person
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Sentences with CENTAUREA (5)
See Blue, a.] (Bot.) A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia c?rulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.
Here one walks beside deep, grassy trenches, which appear to continue without end, along the forest level; farther, the wild mint and the centaurea perfume the shady nooks, the oaks and lime-trees arch their spreading branches, and the honeysuckle twines itself round the knotty shoots of the hornbeam, whence the thrush gives forth her joyous, sonorous notes.
She heard a voice within her saying to the tall, vaulted ash, "Inspire me!" to the little rose-colored centaurea of the wayside, "Teach me a charm to cure the harm I have done!" But the woods, which in former days had been her advisers and instructors, remained deaf to her invocation.
She heard a voice within her saying to the tall, vaulted ash, “Inspire me!” to the little rose-colored centaurea of the wayside, “Teach me a charm to cure the harm I have done!” But the woods, which in former days had been her advisers and instructors, remained deaf to her invocation.
The yellow fails in many highly developed [242] flowers, which are not liable to produce yellow variations, as in _Salvia_, _Aster_, _Centaurea_, _Vinca_, _Polygala_ and many others.