Cupid's-dart
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cupid's dart — noun south European plant having dark eyed flowers with flat blue rays • Syn: ↑blue succory, ↑Catananche caerulea • Hypernyms: ↑catananche * * * cupid s dart A herbaceous plant (Catananche caerulea) of the family Compositae, with blue and white… … Useful english dictionary
cupid's-dart — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun (plural cupid s darts) Usage: usually capitalized C Etymology: so called from the belief that it is efficacious as a love philter : blue succory * * * /kyooh pidz dahrt , dahrt /, n. See blue succory … Useful english dictionary
Cupid and Psyche — Cupid and Psyche, by Antonio Canova, c. 1808, in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg. Cupid and Psyche (/ˈsaɪkiː/; also known as The Tale of Amour and Psyche and The Tale of Eros and Psyche), is a legend that first appeared as a … Wikipedia
Love dart — SEM image of lateral view of a love dart of the land snail Monachoides vicinus. The scale bar is 500 μm (0.5 mm) … Wikipedia
Catananche caerulea — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) … Wikipedia
blue succory — noun south European plant having dark eyed flowers with flat blue rays • Syn: ↑cupid s dart, ↑Catananche caerulea • Hypernyms: ↑catananche * * * noun : a So. European plant (Catananche coerulea) having heads of flowers with flat blue rays * * * a … Useful english dictionary
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blue succory — a composite garden plant, Catananche caerulea, of southern Europe, having very hairy leaves and blue flower heads, used by the ancients as a love potion. Also called Cupid s dart. * * * … Universalium
Catananche caerulea — noun south European plant having dark eyed flowers with flat blue rays • Syn: ↑blue succory, ↑cupid s dart • Hypernyms: ↑catananche … Useful english dictionary
genus Catananche — noun genus of Mediterranean herbs: cupid s dart • Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family … Useful english dictionary
