cassidony

English

Lavandula stoechas flower

Galatella linosyris

Etymology

Compare Latin cassidonium, French cassidoine. See chalcedony.

Noun

cassidony (plural cassidonies)

1. French lavender (Lavandula stoechas).
2. goldilocks (Galatella linosyris, syn. Aster linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.
3. Chalcedony

Synonyms

• (goldilocks): Chrysocoma linosyris, Crinitaria linosyris, Linosyris vulgaris

References

• “cassidony”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Lavandula stoechas on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Aster linosyris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Gnaphalium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cassidony”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)