Centaurea cyanus : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Centaurea cyanus	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Centaurea cyanus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Centaurea cyanus n an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers Synonym(s): cornflower, bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bluebottle \Blue"bot`tle\, n. 1. (Bot.) A plant ({Centaurea cyanus}) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly ({Musca vomitoria}). Its body is steel blue.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bluets \Blu"ets\, n. [F. bluet, bleuet, dim. of bleu blue. See {Blue}, a.] (Bot.) A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the {Houstonia c[d2]rulea}, the {Centaurea cyanus} or bluebottle, and the {Vaccinium angustifolium}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Centaurea \[d8]Cen`tau*re"a\, n. [NL. See {Centaury}.] (Bot.) A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle ({Centaurea Cyanus}) and the star thistle ({C. Calcitrapa}).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cornflower \Corn"flow`er\ (-flou`?r), n. (Bot.) A conspicuous wild flower ({Centaurea Cyanus}), growing in grainfields.