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Bachelor's button

noun

An annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers. Synonyms: bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus, cornflower.

Tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color. Synonyms: globe amaranth, Gomphrena globosa.

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... a green-horn you are!" and swore an oath that no fairy should ever henceforth have power over his heart, till she who had so wantonly scorned and insulted him should beg to be forgiven. As he was turning sadly away, to seek his solitary chamber in the upper branch of a bachelor's button, on the other side of the brook, the elf-clown Puck stood before him, looking as demure as ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 • Various