common centaury
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A pink-flowering plant of species Centaurium erythraea, native to Europe, where it is used in traditional medicine.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Common or lesser centaury is rarely used by medical practitioners; yet it might be employed as an indigenous substitute for gentian."
- "The initial advice of Dioscorides on centaury is unclear as he refers to the 'small useless root' of common centaury but then recommends the pounded root as a plaster for injuries, and to cleanse old ulcers to form a scar."