Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Some golden-flowered plant, perhaps ideal.
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- noun An unidentified
plant with yellowflowers , anciently used ingarlands .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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There are parcels of seeds—useful vegetables and potherbs, helichryse (marigold as we call them now) for the flower garden, for the colonnade even roses with real Italian earth damp about their roots.
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In the spring the breath of his violet beds would be as soft and sweet as in Oxfordshire woods to-day; in the summer his quadrangle would be gay with calthae, and his colonnade festooned with roses and helichryse.
English Villages 1892
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