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| 1. | Also called pot marigold. a composite plant, Calendula officinalis, widely cultivated for its showy, many-rayed orange or yellow flower heads. |
| 2. | the dried florets of this plant, sometimes used medicinally. |
| 3. | any other plant of the genus Calendula. |
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n. A Mediterranean annual plant (Calendula officinalis) in the composite family, widely cultivated for its showy, yellow or orange, rayed flower heads that were formerly used in medicine, coloring, and flavoring of food. Also called pot marigold. [Medieval Latin, marigold, from Latin kalendae, calends; see calends.] |
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| calendula | |
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| any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes |
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Calendula
Ca*len"du*la\, n. [NL., fr. L. calendae calends.] (Bot.) A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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