Associations to the word «Carthamus»

Wiktionary

CARTHAMUS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae   — the safflowers, the distaff thistle.
CARTHAMUS TINCTORIUS, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Asteraceae   — safflower.

Dictionary definition

CARTHAMUS, noun. Safflower.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope