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n. - Any plant of a certain genus of coarse bristly herbs

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  • The Zonites, a rude clan, grazing on the heads of the prickly eryngo, despise all tender preliminaries.
  • Two Zonites, both visitors of the eryngo-heads during the heats of summer, are among the Meloidæ of my part of the country.
  • -- for some suppose the sprig of eryngo to signify that he was already betrothed to her.
  • Sea Holly (eryngo) ...
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