chrysanth

English

Noun

chrysanth (plural chrysanths)

1. (informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of chrysanthemum.
   • 1920 August 27, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Wind Blows”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 138:

     Marie Swainson runs into the garden next door to pick the “chrysanths” before they are ruined.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     The ewer was on the mantelpiece, crowded today with white lilies and white mop-headed chrysanths.