lesser centaury

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   common European glabrous annual centaury with flowers in dense cymes

   SynonymsCentaurium minus

   Broadercentaury

Questions about lesser centaury

What does lesser centaury mean?

lesser centaury means "common European glabrous annual centaury with flowers in dense cymes".

What is another word for lesser centaury?

Close synonyms include Centaurium minus. 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 lesser centaury a common word?

lesser centaury 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.