different between centaurea vs starthistle

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

Alternative forms

• star thistle, star-thistle

Etymology

star +? thistle

Noun

starthistle (plural starthistles)

1. Any of the genus Centaurea of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants.

Derived terms

• American starthistle (Centaurea americana)
• golden starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis)
• Iberian starthistle (Centaurea iberica)
• Maltese starthistle (Centaurea melitensis)
• purple starthistle (Centaurea calcitrapa)
• red starthistle (Centaurea calcitrapa)
• rough starthistle (Centaurea aspera)
• yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis)

Translations

References

• starthistle at OneLook Dictionary Search
• starthistle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Centaurea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies