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bachelor's button
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bachelor's button,
A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus , and the cornflower (Centaurea cyanus ) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena ). [1913 Webster]
" Bachelor's buttons , a name given to several flowers “from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons, anciently worne in this kingdom,” according to Johnson's Gerarde, p. 472 (1633) ; but by other writers ascribed to “a habit of country fellows to carry them in their pockets to divine their success with their sweethearts.” Dr. Prior. " Dr. Prior. [1913 Webster]
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