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eryngium|ɪˈrɪndʒɪəm|
[mod.L., f. L. ēryngion, a. Gr. ἠρύγγιον: see eryngo. Adopted by Linnæus (Systema Naturæ 1735) and earlier botanists as a genus name.]
A hardy herbaceous perennial plant of the genus so called, belonging to the family Umbelliferæ, and bearing blue or white flowers.
[1548see sea-holly.] 1578H. Lyte tr. Dodoen's Herb. iv. 518 Two kindes of Eryngium, the one called the great Eryngium, or Eryngium of the Sea, and the other is called but Eryngium onely. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 203 Eringium groweth in an vntilled, rough, and drie ground. 1626Bacon Sylva (1631) §53 Some few Slices of Eryngium Roots. 1861Miss Pratt Flower Pl. III. 4 Eryngium (Eryngo). Flowers in a dense prickly head. 1899G. Jekyll Wood & Garden xi. 138 Sometimes a Poppy or an Eryngium comes up with one thick root, impossible to divide. 1900W. D. Drury Bk. Gard. 270 Eryngiums are handsome plants with..large branching heads of Thistle-like flowers. 1962Amat. Gardening 17 Mar. 5/3 Echinops and eryngiums..are others which need little attention. |