'Bachelor's button' definitions:
Definition of 'bachelor's button'
From: WordNet
noun
An annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers [syn: cornflower, bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus]
noun
Tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color [syn: globe amaranth, bachelor's button, Gomphrena globosa]
Definition of 'Bachelor's button'
From: GCIDE
- Bachelor's button \Bach"e*lor's but"ton\, (Bot.) A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower ({Centaurea cyanus}) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena). [1913 Webster]
- Note: Bachelor's buttons, a name given to several flowers "from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons, anciently worne in this kingdom," according to Johnson's --Gerarde, p. 472 (1633); but by other writers ascribed to "a habit of country fellows to carry them in their pockets to divine their success with their sweethearts." --Dr. Prior. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'bachelor's button'
From: GCIDE
- Bluebottle \Blue"bot`tle\, blue-bottle \blue-bottle\, n.
- 1. (Bot.) an annual Eurasian plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields; -- called also bachelor's button. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers. Varieties cultivated in North America have showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
- Syn: cornflower, bachelor's button. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
- 2. (Zool.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly ({Musca vomitoria}). Its body is steel blue. [1913 Webster]