资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Yellowwort \Yel"low*wort`\, n. (Bot.)
A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous ({Chlora
perfoliata}). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is
sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.
Centaury \Cen"tau*ry\, n. [L. centaureum and centauria, Gr. ?,
?, and ?, fr. the Centaur Chiron.] (Bot.)
A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is
usually given to the {Eryther[ae]a Centaurium} and the
{Chlora perfoliata} of Europe, but is also extended to the
whole genus {Sabbatia}, and even to the unrelated
{Centaurea}.