单词 | scabious |
释义 | scabious (once / 56016 pages) n WORD FAMILY scabious: scabiouses USAGE EXAMPLESThe mountains drew nearer, and other pale colours began to show through the scabious blue. Onions, Oliver, Mushroom Town(2012) The moist meadows, too, were covered with a profusion of brilliant flowers—snakewort, the wild scabious, campanulas, and many others. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartho...(2012) Bees hummed among the scabious, and blue and sulphur butterflies hovered over the patches of wild thyme. Onions, Oliver [pseud.], The Story of Louie(2011) n any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa Syn|Hypo|Hyper scabiosa Scabiosa atropurpurea, mournful widow, pincushion flower, sweet scabious Old World annual having fragrant purple to deep crimson flower heads; naturalized in United States Scabiosa arvensis, field scabiousperennial having bluish-lilac flowers; introduced in the eastern United States flower a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms |
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