Associations to the word «Centaurium»

Wiktionary

CENTAURIUM, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Gentianaceae   — the centauries.

Dictionary definition

CENTAURIUM, noun. Genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope