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common centaury

common centaury noun: a pink-flowering plant of species Centaurium erythraea, native to Europe, where it is used in traditional medicine.

common centaury: a pink-flowering plant of species Centaurium erythraea, native to Europe, where it is used in...
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Noun

common centaury (uncountable)

  1. A pink-flowering plant of species Centaurium erythraea, native to Europe, where it is used in traditional medicine.
    • Common or lesser centaury is rarely used by medical practitioners; yet it might be employed as an indigenous substitute for gentian.1840, Jonathan Pereira, The Elements of Materia Medica: Vegetable and animal materia medica, page 899
    • The initial advice of Dioscorides on centaury is unclear as he refers to the 'small useless root' of common centaury but then recommends the pounded root as a plaster for injuries, and to cleanse old ulcers to form a scar.2010 November 12, Graeme Tobyn, Alison Denham, Margaret Whitelegg, chapter 13, in The Western Herbal Tradition E-Book: The Western Herbal Tradition E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 137
    Synonyms:
    European centaury, feverwort, lesser centaury, blushwort

Synonyms of common centaury

Questions about common centaury

What does common centaury mean?
Common centaury means a pink-flowering plant of species Centaurium erythraea, native to Europe, where it is used in traditional medicine.
What part of speech is common centaury?
Common centaury is a noun.

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