genus centaurea

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   knapweed; star thistle

   SynonymsCentaurea

   Broaderasterid dicot genus

   Part ofCompositae

Questions about genus centaurea

What does genus centaurea mean?

genus centaurea means "knapweed; star thistle".

What is another word for genus centaurea?

Close synonyms include Centaurea. 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 genus centaurea a common word?

genus centaurea 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.