bachelor's button
ə noun
any of various plants with round flower heads, especially the cornflower.
Origin:
1570–80
1570–80
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| bachelor's button | |
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| 1. | an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers [syn: cornflower] |
| 2. | tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color [syn: globe amaranth] |
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Bachelor's button
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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