xeranthemumn.
/zᵻˈranθᵻməm/, U.S. /zəˈrænθəməm/ Botany.
A plant of a genus of composites of the Mediterranean region, having flower-heads with dry chaffy bracts of a purplish or whitish colour; the genus itself; one kind of the plants commonly called everlasting or immortelle.
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1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 312 Seeds of Jacea's,..Xeranthemums,..and sweet Sultan.
1751 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. II. 574 The longleaved xeranthemum with paleaceous receptacles. It is a native of Germany and France; the flowers retain their beauty many years.
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 116 Virginia and English tobacco, Indian corn, xeranthemum, ten-week's stocks.
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