Scabious (Noun)
Meaning
Any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The cottage garden was a haven for scabious, cosmos, and other wildflowers that bloomed throughout the summer.
- A few patches of scabious remained, still stubbornly in flower, after the frosts had claimed the more delicate plants.
- As a bee flew from the nectar-rich flower head of a nearby scabious, a photographer lay in wait, eager to capture its moment.
- Their fragrant white scabious has blue-flowered 'albiflora' a dwarf gem ideal for tubs.
- We would fill buckets from a great crop of white, pale yellow and crimson pincushion flowers on stems a couple of feet long on some common field scabious that sprang from walls or meadow floor and pick freely also little wry mouths red starthistles then quite wild then nowhere a great source more for flower posies and posy garnishing that one – and more romantic – just 'from the fields'.