am·sinck·i·a  (ām-sĭngk'ē-ə)  n. An annual herb of the genus Amsinckia, native to southern California, with rough, bristly, pubescent herbage and large, coiled, yellow to orange flowers. Also called fiddleneck. [New Latin Amsinckia, genus name, after Wilhelm Amsinck (died 1831), German botanist.] |
| fid·dle·neck (fĭd'l-něk') n.
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| fiddleneck | |
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| hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers |