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名詞

ageratum (usually uncountable, plural ageratums)

1. 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,

     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, 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.

   • 1993, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries‎, London: Fourth Estate, page 195:

     A stone path edged with ageratum leads to the grape arbor […]