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Chrysanthemum   /krɪsˈænθəməm/   Listen
Chrysanthemum

noun
1.
The flower of a chrysanthemum plant.
2.
Any of numerous perennial Old World herbs having showy brightly colored flower heads of the genera Chrysanthemum, Argyranthemum, Dendranthema, Tanacetum; widely cultivated.



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"Chrysanthemum" Quotes from Famous Books



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— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole

... evergreens and flowers to put upon her coffin—indeed, gather a great many, and completely bury her in them. Get some boughs of laurustinus, and variegated box, and yew, and boy's-love; ay, and some bunches of chrysanthemum. And let old Pleasant draw her, because ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy

... has sent a special mission to the Spanish court to present the young King Alphonso with his sacred order of the Chrysanthemum. ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 40, August 12, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various

... frames, geraniums, etc., would rot, from the rarity of sunshine, which is as prejudicial as the damp and exposure. Still many wild shrubs of great interest and beauty flourished, and some European ones succeeded with skill and management; as geraniums, Salvia, Petunia, nasturtium, chrysanthemum, Kennedya rubicunda, Maurandya, and Fuchsia. The daisy seed sent from England as double, came up very poor and single. Dahlias do not thrive, nor double balsams. Now they have erected small but airy green-houses, and sunlight is the ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker

... things to look at, and pleasant things to do." And when, a few days later, Archie was initiated into some of the mysteries of Japanese life by his experienced friend, he was willing to admit the truth of all he had heard concerning the land of the chrysanthemum. He found everything quite beyond his expectations. The people themselves were more quaint in their dress and manners than he had expected to find them, and the houses and the pagodas were much more picturesque ...
— The Adventures of a Boy Reporter • Harry Steele Morrison

... herself, and she was ashamed of her excursion into the realms of feminine folly. That was the way she put her defection from "common sense," and her little flare of sentiment for Ray, and all her breathless, ridiculous preparation for him. She had never worn the chrysanthemum dress, and she so loathed the sight of it that she boxed it and put it in the ...
— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie

... cousin Alice's last year's ball-dress, looking so supremely happy, and as pretty—he had said that—as a dream. Yes; she was thankful he would never have to know. What would he think of her if he could see her now in her full-skirted brown merino frock, her brown muslin apron, the big white chrysanthemum, which was the emblem of the tea-shop, embroidered in its corner and on its bib, her high muslin cap with the stiff strings tied beneath ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann



Words linked to "Chrysanthemum" :   shun giku, crown daisy, corn marigold, Compositae, Dendranthema grandifloruom, Asteraceae, tong ho, flower, family Asteraceae, blossom, aster family, bloom, chop-suey greens, field marigold, family Compositae, mum



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