"marjorum" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1847, Modern Standard Drama, page 31",
          "text": "‘The striped carnation, and the guarded rose,\n‘The vulgar wall-flower, and smart gilly-flower,\n‘The polyanthus mean—the dapper daisy,\n‘Sweet William, and sweet marjorum—and all\n‘The tribe of single and of double pinks!",
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          "ref": "1850, Harper's Magazine, volume 1, page 449",
          "text": "The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.",
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          "ref": "1853, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 42, page 45",
          "text": "Amaracus, a page of Cynarus, King of Cyprus, was so afflicted at having accidentally broken a vase which he was entrusted, and thus spilling a very precious ointment which it contained, that he died of grief, and the pitying gods changed him into the fragrant marjorum.",
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          "ref": "1858, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 44, page 69",
          "text": "“The primrose, the spring’s own spouse;\nBright day’s eyes, and the lips of cows;\nThe garden star, the queen of May,\nThe rose to crown the holiday—\nRain roses still:\nBring corn, flax, tulips, and Adonis’ flower,\nFlower-gentle, and the fair-haired hyacinth,\nBring gladdest myrtle,\nWith spikenard weaved, and marjorum between;\nAnd starred with yellow-golds and meadows’ green—\nThe breath thereof Panchaia may envy,\nThe colors China, and the light the sky.",
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          "text": "‘The striped carnation, and the guarded rose,\n‘The vulgar wall-flower, and smart gilly-flower,\n‘The polyanthus mean—the dapper daisy,\n‘Sweet William, and sweet marjorum—and all\n‘The tribe of single and of double pinks!",
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          "text": "“The primrose, the spring’s own spouse;\nBright day’s eyes, and the lips of cows;\nThe garden star, the queen of May,\nThe rose to crown the holiday—\nRain roses still:\nBring corn, flax, tulips, and Adonis’ flower,\nFlower-gentle, and the fair-haired hyacinth,\nBring gladdest myrtle,\nWith spikenard weaved, and marjorum between;\nAnd starred with yellow-golds and meadows’ green—\nThe breath thereof Panchaia may envy,\nThe colors China, and the light the sky.",
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