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n. - Any plant of a particular genus of Old World herb formerly used as a tonic.

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Usage examples (30)
  • Time is the most valuable things in the twenty first centaury no doubt.
  • Use of pennyroyal, wormwood, centaury sod, which alone hath cured many.
  • 'I want water, clean linen, the ointment of centaury and cleavers, and a good measure of wine.
  •   These were plants that I had brought with me from the modern world when I first came to this centaury.
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