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Replaced a grim, long-established flower
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marigold
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A blue and red hand-painted signboard is hung over the entrance and a garland of marigolds placed around it. ▪ All foliage on leggy marginals such as marsh marigolds should also be cut back. ▪ Flowers, especially marigolds, are ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having the color of marigolds, a bright yellowish-orange hue. n. 1 Any garden flower plant of the genus ''Calendula'', with orange, yellow or reddish flowers. 2 Any plant of the genus ''Tagetes'', a flowering plant with orange, yellow or reddish flowers. ...
Usage examples of marigold.
Fresh orange marigolds decorated the numerous memorials, statues, and makeshift shines to Manion the Innocent.
But as Veronique got out and set the marigolds beside the newly repaired step, she heard the sound of ham-meting coming from the barn.
Flower merchants gathered up their entire stock of freshly prepared garlands of marigold and tuberose and jasmine and champak blooms--banked masses of garlands were hung on scores of scores of reaching arms, lifted to carry them.
So many of the cows of those days had their names printed above their stalls but there were no Marigolds, Alices or Snowdrops here, just numbers.
The altar was ablaze with zinnias, marigolds, gaillardia, splashing their wild reds and yellows against the gentler shades of cosmos and lupine.
The marigold is like a golden frill, The daisy with a golden eye looks up, And golden spreads the flag beside the rill, And gay and golden nods the daffodil, The gorsey common swells a golden sea, The cowslip hangs a head of golden tips, And golden drips the honey which the bee Sucks from sweet hearts of flowers and stores and sips.
The flowers of the tundra opened: white mountain avens, yellow poppies, white heather, crimson, yellow, red, white and purple saxifrage, lousewort, pink primulas, even the orange marigolds.
They went toward the nursery, for Maranta and Marigold were already crying with hunger.
But among them were familiar things from Europe: irises, potentillas, even the humble marigold.
Marigold has a gay house in the Blackfriars you know, maids for hire, harlots.
Mexican marigolds are planted by many gardeners to eliminate Wireworms.
Flowers include nasturtiums, marigolds, petunias, geraniums, and chrysanthemums.
As she put her face down into the marigolds, it was all overcast with a yellow shine.
As she padded to the stone bench in the corner, she sat, enjoying the glorious abundance of marigolds and gillyflowers.
Pleasant the sunbeams to the marigold when the wind has carried the rain away and his sun-disc glows on the bank.