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| ni·gel·la [ nī jéllə ] |
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flowering plant: a member of a genus of flowering plants of the buttercup family that includes love-in-a-mist. Flowers: white, blue, yellow. Native to: Mediterranean, western Asia. Genus Nigella.
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| [14th century. < modern Latin, feminine of nigellus (see niello)] |
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