calendula
Americannoun
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Also called pot marigold. a composite plant, Calendula officinalis, widely cultivated for its showy, many-rayed orange or yellow flower heads.
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the dried florets of this plant, sometimes used medicinally.
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any other plant of the genus Calendula.
noun
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any Eurasian plant of the genus Calendula, esp the pot marigold, having orange-and-yellow rayed flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
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the dried flowers of the pot marigold, formerly used medicinally and for seasoning
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Etymology
Origin of calendula
1870–75; < Medieval Latin, equivalent to Latin calend ( ae ) calends + -ula -ule
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For topical preparations, Extracts are incorporated into many skin products: soaps, creams, ointments, salves, and lotions with various concentrations of calendula.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 7, 2024
Aside from vegetables, they also grow medicinal herbs, some of which include camomile, salvia, calendula, lavender and epazote.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
It also has calendula and chamomile to calm the skin, and sandalwood and neroli give it a heavenly scent.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2021
They were the bright yellow in the calendula flowers, the ocher streaks in the tomato skins, the yellow-green of the sorrel and kale, and the topaz of the turning maple leaves.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2019
When Mother couldn’t get the swelling down with echinacea and calendula, Dad suggested his own remedy.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
The delicate foreground might include violas, calendulas and violet sage.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 21, 2016
Both flowers are calendulas, one a large, golden, double-petaled variety, the other an orange semidouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
Countless vases sit on every surface, holding snow-season flowers—tangerine calendulas and creamy candytufts and crimson cyclamens.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
I wonder if the calendulas are so tall that they hide the asters.
From More Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge
And then all in front of the motel to the highway planted in calendulas.
From Four and Twenty Beds by Vogel, Nancy
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