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From the genus name.
ageratum (usually uncountable, plural ageratums)
- Any of the genus Ageratum of tropical American herbs, annuals and perennials, from the sunflower family Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae; they are sometimes used in floral displays.
- 1888, George Washington Cable, Bonaventure, New York: Scribner, “Grande Pointe,” Chapter 2, pp. 77-78,[1]
- The way before him was little more than a bridle-path along the earth […] . The soft blue tufts of the ageratum were on each side continually.
1988, Barbara Kingsolver, chapter 17, in The Bean Trees[2], New York: HarperPerennial, page 218:
They helped carry things up a sidewalk bordered with a purple fringe of ageratums into the small house behind the parsonage.
- 1888, George Washington Cable, Bonaventure, New York: Scribner, “Grande Pointe,” Chapter 2, pp. 77-78,[1]
ageratum m (plural ageratums)
- “ageratum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.