cassidony

English edit

Lavandula stoechas flower

Galatella linosyris

Etymology edit

Compare Latin cassidonium, French cassidoine. See chalcedony.

Noun edit

cassidony (plural cassidonies)

French lavender (Lavandula stoechas).
goldilocks (Galatella linosyris, syn. Aster linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.
Chalcedony

Synonyms edit

(goldilocks): Chrysocoma linosyris, Crinitaria linosyris, Linosyris vulgaris

References edit

“cassidony”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Lavandula stoechas on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Aster linosyris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Gnaphalium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cassidony”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)