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Calendula   /kəlˈɛdʒələ/   Listen
Calendula

noun
1.
Any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes.



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Calendula officinalis
Regulus calendula
genus Calendula


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"Calendula" Quotes from Famous Books



... little mould, and they vegetate in it daring the proper season. Though these plants be not absolute mosses, they are however nearly related to them in their habit. We reckon among them the IXIA pumila; a new plant which we called DONATIA; a small MELANTHIUM; a minute OXALIS and CALENDULA; another little dioicous plant, called by us PHYLLACHNE, together with the MNIARUM, (see Forster, Nova Genera Plantarum). These plants, or the greater part of them, have a peculiar growth, particularly adapted to these regions, and fit for forming soil and mould on barren rocks. In ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 14 • Robert Kerr


Words linked to "Calendula" :   Scotch marigold, common marigold, flower, pot marigold, Regulus calendula, ruddles, Calendula officinalis


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