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- noun Plural form of
centaury .
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Examples
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Discoid forms of the ordinary camomile, of the daisy, of some asters (_Aster Tripolium_), and of some centauries have been described.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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After dinner we went out and sat together upon the bank of the noisy river; we sat in a meadow overgrown with centauries and sweet marjoram, recognizable in the darkness because of their penetrating odor.
The Story of a Child Pierre Loti 1886
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She picks blue centauries, scarlet poppies, cuckoo-flowers, and buttercups, which she also knows as _little chicks_.
Child Life In Town And Country 1909 Anatole France 1884
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Next, in respect of number, come the centauries, grim looking one and all, bristling with prickles or starry halberds.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The whole secret of my hunting is reduced to my dense nursery of thistles and centauries.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Its mighty growth of thistles and centauries draws them all to me from everywhere around.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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I see the first males appear in the middle of September, on the centauries.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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It is prescribed, with the two centauries, for suppressed menses, and with _pulegium_, to bring a dead child away, &c.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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The story to BWii starts out a couple of centauries ago: the Iron Legion - lead by Lord Ferrok (a man with a head shaped like a novelty, er, well …) - had decided that it would be rather nice to take over the world.
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_F_), the buck-bean (_Menyanthes_), the centauries (_Erythræa_ and
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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