Definition of sabbatia Sabbatia
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NounPlural: sabbatias |
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| sabbatia - any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes | ||
| bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath | ||
| genus sabbatia genus of smooth slender North American herbs with showy flowers | ||
| american centaury, bitter floom, marsh pink, rose pink, sabbatia angularis, sabbatia stellaris any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury | ||
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Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary π
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sabbatia
sa-bΔβ²ti-a, n. a genus of small North American herbaceous plants of the gentian family. [From Sabbati, an 18th-cent. Italian botanist.]
