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‖ erigeron|əˈrɪdʒərɒn|
[Gr. ἠριγέρων, f. ἦρι early + γέρων old man. Cf. L. senecio, f. senex old man.]
†a. The Gr. name of the Groundsel: see quots. In botanical Latin the name of an allied genus. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny II. 238 The Greekes imposed that name Erigeron, because in the Spring it looketh hoarie, like an old gray beard. 1666J. Smith Old Age (ed. 2) 163 This is the true Erigeron, that early in the Spring-time bears the representation of Old Age.
b. [Linnæus Hortus Cliffortianus (1737) 407, from a name used by Theophrastus for a similar plant.] A hardy herbaceous annual, biennial, or perennial plant bearing daisy-like flowers and belonging to the large genus so called, of the family Compositæ.
1815Bot. Reg. I. 10 (caption) Fordyce's Erigeron. 1900J. M. Abbott in W. D. Drury Bk. Gard. viii. 270 Erigerons are summer-flowering composites with beautiful star-shaped flowers. 1901Cassell's Dict. Gard. I. 325/2 Snails and slugs are frequently very destructive to Erigerons in late autumn. 1922Glasgow Herald 16 Dec. 8 Mauve erigerons, scarlet geums, arabis. 1964M. Fish Ground Cover Plants xi. 82 For years I have grown a low, fleshy erigeron..and nothing could make better ground cover for a bank or wall. 1969Hay & Synge Dict. Garden Plants 295/1 A wide range of hybrid erigerons have been raised in England and in Germany. |