Centaurea Cyanus.
Centaurea Cyanus. See Haw, adj.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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A Scottish dialect name for the cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), referring to its distinctive blue color. 'Blaw' relates to the Scots word for blue, and 'wort' is an old English word for a plant. The term is now effectively obsolete in everyday speech, replaced by 'cornflower.'
(Scotland) , cornflower.
Heracleum sphondylium. Cf. caddel, sb?
Coccinella septempunctata. Also called Cow-lady, Cush- lady, &c.
A hip of a rose; a rosehip.