helichryse
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek ἑλίχρῡσος (helíkhrūsos, “gold flower”).
Noun
helichryse (uncountable)
- 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.
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