CENTAURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does centaury mean? 

• CENTAURY (noun)
  The noun CENTAURY has 2 senses:

1. any of various plants of the genus Centaurium

2. any plant of the genus Centaurea

  Familiarity information: CENTAURY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTAURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Centaurium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("centaury" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "centaury"):

Centaurium calycosum; rosita (erect plant with small clusters of pink trumpet-shaped flowers of southwestern United States)

Centaurium minus; lesser centaury (common European glabrous annual centaury with flowers in dense cymes)

Centaurium scilloides; tufted centaury (tufted perennial of western Europe and Azores having bright pink to white flowers)

seaside centaury (a variety of centaury found at the seaside)

broad leaved centaury (a variety of centaury with broad leaves)

slender centaury (a slender variety of centaury)

Holonyms ("centaury" is a member of...):

Centaurium; genus Centaurium (genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Centaurea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("centaury" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "centaury"):

basket flower; Centaurea americana (annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets)

Centaurea cineraria; Centaurea gymnocarpa; dusty miller (a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust)

caltrop; Centauria calcitrapa; star-thistle (Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America)

knapweed (any of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers)

Holonyms ("centaury" is a member of...):

Centaurea; genus Centaurea (knapweed; star thistle)