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AMERICAN CENTAURY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does American centaury mean?
• AMERICAN CENTAURY (noun)
The noun AMERICAN CENTAURY has 1 sense:
1. any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury
Familiarity information: AMERICAN CENTAURY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
American centaury; bitter floom; marsh pink; rose pink; Sabbatia Angularis; Sabbatia stellaris
Hypernyms ("American centaury" is a kind of...):
sabbatia (any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes)
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