cen|tau|ry

cen|tau|ry
cen|tau|ry «SEHN tr ee», noun, plural -ries.
any plant of several Old World herbs of the gentian family, whose medicinal properties were said to have been discovered by Chiron the centaur.
[< Latin centaurium < Greek kentaúrion < Kéntauros centaur]

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