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LESSER CENTAURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lesser centaury mean? 

LESSER CENTAURY (noun)
  The noun LESSER CENTAURY has 1 sense:

1. common European glabrous annual centaury with flowers in dense cymesplay

  Familiarity information: LESSER CENTAURY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LESSER CENTAURY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Common European glabrous annual centaury with flowers in dense cymes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Centaurium minus; lesser centaury

Hypernyms ("lesser centaury" is a kind of...):

centaury (any of various plants of the genus Centaurium)


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