noun
annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets
• Syn: ↑Centaurea americana
• Hypernyms: ↑centaury
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noun1. : an annual plant (Centaurea americana) of the southwestern United States often cultivated for its purple-rayed flower heads with involucres like baskets
2. : a spider lily (Hymenocallis calathina) having umbels of two to four flowers, each with linear perianth segments
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a composite plant, Centaurea americana, of central U.S. to Mexico, having raylike heads of tubular rose-colored flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of bracts making the flower head appear as if it is set in a basket.
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basket flower,
an annual plant of the composite family, native to the southwestern United States, having involucres in the form of a basket.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.