centaurea cineraria

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   a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust

   Synonymsdusty millerCentaurea gymnocarpa

   Broadercentaury

Questions about centaurea cineraria

What does centaurea cineraria mean?

centaurea cineraria means "a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust".

What is another word for centaurea cineraria?

Close synonyms include dusty miller, Centaurea gymnocarpa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is centaurea cineraria a common word?

centaurea cineraria is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.