black cosmos

American  

noun

1. a garden plant, Cosmos diversifolius, of Mexico, having small, dahlialike tubers and solitary flower heads with red disk flowers and velvety, dark-red or purplish ray flowers.

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Example Sentences

P-Funk’s songs and album sleeves sketched out an extended, predominantly black cosmos of heroes and villains.

From The New Yorker

The group later watches “Earthrise” to an unexpected sound track: “MDash yelled, ‘Hit Play, hit Play!’ just as a blue-and-white patch of life – a slice of all that we have made of ourselves, all that we have ever been – pierced the black cosmos above the sawtooth horizon.

From The Guardian

Dante’s “Divine Comedy” portrays the earth as a sphere, and the exterior panel of Bosch’s Garden triptych takes an in-between approach by showing a flat earth floating in a transparent ball surrounded by a black cosmos.

From Salon

"He pent me in here with this devil flower whose seeds drifted down through the black cosmos from Yag the Accursed, and found fertile field only in the maggot-writhing corruption that seethes on the floor of hell."

From The Guardian

Cara-cosmos, which means black cosmos, is made for the great lords, in the following manner: The agitation, as before described, is continued until all the lees or coagulated portion of the milk subsides to the bottom, like the lees of wine, and the thin parts remain above like whey, or clear must of wine.

From Project Gutenberg