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AMERICAN CENTAURY

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.

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• AMERICAN CENTAURY (noun)

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American centaury ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

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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