helichryse

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἑλίχρῡσος (helíkhrūsos, “gold flower”).

Noun

helichryse (uncountable)

1. An unidentified plant with yellow flowers, anciently used in garlands.
   • 1854, Athenaeus (translated by Charles Duke Yonge), The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the learned, Volume 3, page 1087:

     And of wild flowers, there are the helichryse, and that species of anemone called the meadow anemone, and the gladiolus, and the hyacinth.