centaurea

American  

[sen-tawr-ee-uh] / sɛnˌtɔr i ə /

noun

1. any of numerous composite plants of the genus Centaurea, having tubular flowers in a variety of colors.

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centaurea British  

/ ˌsɛntɔːˈrɪə, sɛnˈtɔːrɪə /

noun

1. any plant of the genus Centaurea, which includes the cornflower and knapweed

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Etymology

Origin of centaurea

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

Example Sentences

Oxalis tropæoloides; center, blue heliotrope, blue ageratum, or Acalypha marginata; cross about the center, Thymus argenteus, or centaurea; scallop outside the cross, blue lobelia; corners, inside border, santolina.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

The following sections are on centaurea, solsequium, celidonia, pipernella, materfemia, mortagon, pervinca, rosa, lilium, egrimonye.

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

Erect-growing plants would be dracenas, palms, ferns, coleus, centaurea, spotted calla, and others.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

For inside and in shady situations the following are suitable: tradescantia, parlour ivy, moneywort, vinca smilax, climbing fern, asparagus fern, dracæna, coleus, centaurea, sword fern, and Boston fern.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Those which now made the best show of bloom were the star-thistle centaurea and ononis repens.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison