tagete

plural tagetes

1. Synonym of tagetes (“individual plant of the genus Tagetes”).

   […] The little girl wears a white death mask and holds a tagete (sunflower):

   2008, Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo: "I Paint My Reality", page 62

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   The wound was washed with the juice of a young green coconut, sutured with a fine coconut fibre using the sharpened wing bone of a flying fox and then dressed with a "tagete" leaf over which was laid the outer layer of a banana flower. The whole was then sealed from the air with a mixture of pepper, lime and young betel nut chewed together. Mrs. Parkinson said she knew a man who had lived for thirty years after this operation, but she thought this was exceptional.

   1979, Ellen Kettle, That they might live, page 3

   "She would no more confuse a calendula with a tagete than you'd mistake a water gun for a pistol."

   2013, Sandra Orchard, Deadly Devotion (Port Aster Secrets Book #1): A Novel, Baker Books, →ISBN

   Synonyms: tagetes