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chamomiles

  • plural
    of chamomile.
    chamomile
    noun
    a composite plant, Chamaemelium nobile (orAnthemis nobilis ), native to the Old World, having strongly scented foliage and white ray flowers with yellow centers used medicinally and as a tea.

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He carries a bunch of chamomiles – the national flower of Russia, he explains – to place in tribute.

From The Guardian Sep. 15, 2017

It is cultivated for medicinal purposes in Surrey, at several places in Saxony, and in France and Belgium,—that grown in England being much more valuable than any of the foreign chamomiles brought into the market.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

The numerous families of the pellitories, the chamomiles, the mesembryanthemums, pushed their varied and abundant tufts through the loop-holes in the walls, cracked and fissured in spite of their thickness.

From The Village Rector by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Round about it were roses and narcissus and amaranths and gilly-flowers and chamomiles and white lilies and violets, and other flowers of all kinds and colours.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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