chamomile

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis

Picked up some chamomile flowers, which abound in the lanes and highways. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson
And she unpinned her hat and waved it, standing amongst the thickly-growing poppies and chamomile on the high crest of the sand-wave, while her shadow--a squat, blue dwarf with arms out of all proportion--flourished and gesticulated at her feet. — The Dop Doctor, Richard Dehan
I rather liked to be somewhat ill and to be allowed to spend the morning in bed drinking chamomile tea, to listen to mother clearing-up in the next room, and to hear Lina outside in the corridor opening the door to the butcher. — Demian, Hermann Hesse

camomile, Chamaemelum nobilis, Anthemis nobilis

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