chrysanthemum

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Short stories, for all the dazzling diversity of the genre, are of two general types: those that yield their meanings subtly, quietly, and are as nuanced and delicate and without melodrama as the unfolding of miniature blossoms in Japanese chrysanthemum tea, and those that explode in the reader's face.

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  1. noun Any of numerous, mostly Eurasian plants of the genus Chrysanthemum in the composite family, many of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy radiate flower heads.
  2. noun A flower head of one of these plants.

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  • But when she shoved him hard enough to stagger him off balance, he reacted before his brain could catch up-which wasn't very difficult in his current state of mind. —  Time Scout
  • She held out her hand, opened it up like a chrysanthemum budding. —  The White Ninja
  • Short stories, for all the dazzling diversity of the genre, are of two general types: those that yield their meanings subtly, quietly, and are as nuanced and delicate and without melodrama as the unfolding of miniature blossoms in Japanese chrysanthemum tea, and those that explode in the reader's face. —  The New York Review of Books
  • FLOWERS are raised everywhere in great variety and in great abundance, and the chrysanthemum is the emblem of the country and is used on postage stamps JAPAN'S MANUFACTURES: THEIR FUTURE POSSIBILITIES The future of Japan depends upon its MANUFACTURES, but these also are not without their difficulties. —  Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)
  • FLOWERS are raised everywhere in great variety and in great abundance, and the chrysanthemum is the emblem of the country and is used on postage stamps. —  Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)
 

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  1. Latin chrȳsanthemum, from Greek khrūsanthemon, gold flower : khrūs-, khrūso-, chryso- + anthemon, flower (from anthos).

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  1. = French chrysanthème = Spanish Italian crisantemo = Portuguese chrysantemo, from Latin chrysanthemum, from Greek χρυσάνθεμον, literally ‘golden flower,’ from χρυσός, gold, + ἄνθεμον, flower.
 

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/krɪˈsænθəməm/
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