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centaureum

centaureum · n

centaury

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Where it lives

Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

centaurēum — Lewis & Short

centaurēum or -ĭon, i, n. (access. form centaurĭa, ae, f., kentau/reion and kentau/rion,

App. Herb. 34 and 35), =

I centaury, a plant of two kinds: majus, Centaurea centaurium, Linn.; and minus, Gentiana centaurium, id.; Plin. 25, 6, 30, § 66: ferum, Lucr. 2, 401: tristia, id. 4, 124: Thessala, Luc. 9, 918; Verg. G. 4, 270.

In the wild

centaurea Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.125
centaurea Vergil, Georgicon 4.270
centaurei Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.12.p2
centaurea Lucan, Pharsalia 9.918

Where it came from

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