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bachelor's button

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bachelor's button
n.
1. See cornflower.
2. Any of several plants that have buttonlike flowers or flower heads.
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Noun1.bachelor's buttonbachelor's button - an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus, cornflower
flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
Centaurea, genus Centaurea - knapweed; star thistle
2.bachelor's button - tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color
globe amaranth, Gomphrena globosa
flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
genus Gomphrena, Gomphrena - genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia


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