centaury.
(Of centaurea).
1. f. perennial of the family, of shrub stalk, straight, one to two meters in height, with large leaves divided into lacinias sawn unevenly, and purplish brown flowers in irregular corymb, with scaly ringleader chalice.
1. f. centaury.
s Gentianaceae, with stem from three decimetres of height, quadrangular, hairless down and shrub on top, smooth, small, ovate and narrow, and almost linear radical leaves the superiors, flowers in the bouquet, róseas or splintered into five funnel-shaped and white petals.