different between centaurea vs knapweed

English

Noun

centaurea (plural centaureas)

1. Alternative spelling of centaury

Italian

Noun

centaurea f (plural centauree)

1. centaury, star thistle (Centaurea)

Latin

Alternative forms

• centauria

Etymology

Accessory form of centaur?um in the Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (kentaúreion, “several plants related to Centaurea”), from ????????? (kéntauros, “centaur”) (due to the mythological discovery of its medicinal properties by Chiron the Centaur).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ken.tau??re?.a/, [k?n?t?äu???e?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t??en.tau??re.a/, [t???n?t??u??r???]

Noun

centaur?a f (genitive centaur?ae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Alternative form of centaur?um

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Dutch: centaurie
• Old English: centaurie
  • Middle English: centaure
    • English: centaury
• French: centaurée
• Ido: centaureo
• Italian: centaurea
• Norman: centaurée
• Occitan: centaurèa
• Portuguese: centáurea
• Translingual: Centaurea

References

• centaur?a in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?næpwi?d/

Etymology

Alteration of knopweed.

Noun

knapweed (countable and uncountable, plural knapweeds)

1. Any of various common weeds of the genus Centaurea
   1. especially Centaurea nigra.

Derived terms

• bighead knapweed (Centaurea macrocephala)
• black knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
• brown knapweed (Centaurea jacea)
• common knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
• diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa)
• giant knapweed (Centaurea macrocephala)
• great knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa)
• greater knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa)
• Jersey knapweed (Centaurea paniculata)
• lesser knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
• Russian knapweed (Rhaponticum repens)
• singleflower knapweed (Centaurea uniflora)
• slender knapweed (Centaurea spp.)
• spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa)
• squarrose knapweed (Centaurea virgata ssp. squarrosa)
• tumble knapweed (Centaurea diffusa)
• white knapweed (Centaurea diffusa)

Synonyms

• clubweed

Translations

References

• knapweed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• knapweed at OneLook Dictionary Search