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chrysanthemum

kri san thuh muhm

  • n  the flower of a chrysanthemum plant
  • n  any of numerous perennial Old World herbs having showy brightly colored flower heads of the genera Chrysanthemum, Argyranthemum, Dendranthema, Tanacetum; widely cultivated

  • In the late afternoon people sit around the club drinking chrysanthemum tea, chatting and playing cards.
  • While the royal family does occasionally come out from behind its chrysanthemum curtainEmpress Nagako was recently permitted to exhibit her water-colorssuch decadent .
  • To most Orientals as to most Europeans a chrysanthemum is only a chrysanthemum.
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  • Qu Yuan in Xinhua
    Drink the dew of magnolia in the morning, and eat the falling petals of chrysanthemum at night,wrote Qu Yuan in his famous poem "Li Sao" ("The Lament") about a nobleman's life in the Warring States Period (476-221 BC).

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