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Any of the genus Ageratum of tropical American herbs, annuals and perennials, from the sunflower family Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae; they are sometimes used in floral displays..
1888, George Washington Cable, Bonaventure, New York: Scribner, “Grande Pointe,” Chapter 2, pp. 77-78, The way before him was little more than a bridle-path along the earth […] . The soft blue tufts of the ageratum were on each side continually.
They helped carry things up a sidewalk bordered with a purple fringe of ageratums into the small house behind the parsonage.
A stone path edged with ageratum leads to the grape arbor […]
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Ageratum means Any of the genus Ageratum of tropical American herbs, annuals and perennials, from the sunflower family Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae; they are sometimes used in floral displays..
Common synonyms include mistflower, conoclinium coelestinum, eupatorium coelestinum.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1888, George Washington Cable, Bonaventure, New York: Scribner, “Grande Pointe,” Chapter 2, pp. 77-78, The way before him was little more than a bridle-path along the earth […] . The soft blue tufts of the ageratum were on each side continually.
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