| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| amsinckia |
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| SYLLABICATION: | am·sinck·i·a |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   m-s ngk  - |
| NOUN: | An annual herb of the genus Amsinckia, native to southern California, with rough, bristly, pubescent herbage and large, coiled, yellow to orange flowers. Also called fiddleneck. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin Amsinckia, genus name, after Wilhelm Amsinck (died 1831), German botanist.
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