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chrysanthemum

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /kɹɪˈsænθəməm/
  • /kɹəˈsænθəmʌm/
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  • CMU ARPABET: K R IH0 S AE1 N TH AH0 M AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Any of many flowering perennial plants, of the genus Chrysanthemum, native to China, that have showy radiate heads.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

any of numerous perennial Old World herbs having showy brightly colored flower heads of the genera Chrysanthemum, Argyranthemum, Dendranthema, Tanacetum; widely cultivated

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: flower

Narrower terms: corn marigold, field marigold, Chrysanthemum segetum, crown daisy, Chrysanthemum coronarium, chop-suey greens, tong ho, shun giku, Chrysanthemum coronarium spatiosum, florist's chrysanthemum, florists' chrysanthemum, mum, Dendranthema grandifloruom, Chrysanthemum morifolium

3

noun

Meaning 3

the flower of a chrysanthemum plant

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: flower, bloom, blossom

History

Etymology

From Latin chrȳsanthemum from Ancient Greek χρῡσάνθεμον (khrūsánthemon, “Persian buttercup”).

Across languages

Translations

128 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: أُقْحُوَان (ʔuqḥuwān) — flower
  • Armenian: ոսկեծաղիկ (oskecaġik) — flower
  • Azerbaijani: payızgülü — flower
  • Bashkir: хризантема (xrizantema) — flower
  • Bashkir: әрем гөлө (ərem gölö) — flower
  • Bashkir: алтын сәскә (altın səskə) — flower
  • Belarusian: хрызантэ́ма (xryzantéma) — flower
  • Bengali: চন্দ্রমল্লিকা (condromollika) — flower
  • Bulgarian: хризанте́ма (hrizantéma) — flower
  • Burmese: ဂန္ဒမာ (ganda.ma) — flower
  • Catalan: crisantem — flower
  • Catalan: estrany — flower
  • Chinese Cantonese: 菊花 (guk1 faa1) — flower
  • Chinese Cantonese: 菊 (guk1) — flower
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 菊花 (gé̤ṳk-huă) — flower
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 菊 (gé̤ṳk) — flower
  • Gan Chinese: 菊花 ('jiuh6 fa1) — flower
  • Hakka Chinese: 菊花 (khiuk-fâ) — flower
  • Hakka Chinese: 菊 (khiuk) — flower
  • Chinese: 菊花 (zh-min-nan) — flower
  • Chinese: 菊 (zh-min-nan) — flower
  • Jin Chinese: 菊花 (jyeh4 hua1) — flower
  • Chinese Mandarin: 菊 (jú) — flower
  • Chinese Mandarin: 菊花 (júhuā) — flower
  • Northern Min Chinese: 菊花 (gṳ̆-huá) — flower
  • Northern Min Chinese: 菊 (gṳ̆) — flower
  • Wu Chinese: 菊花 — flower
  • Wu Chinese: 菊 — flower
  • Xiang Chinese: 菊花 (ju6 fa1) — flower
  • Czech: chryzantéma — flower
  • Danish: krysantemum — flower
  • Danish: okseøje — flower
  • Dutch: chrysant — flower
  • Esperanto: krizantemo — flower
  • Finnish: krysanteemi — flower
  • French: chrysanthème — flower
  • Galician: crisantemo — flower
  • Georgian: ქრიზანთემა (krizantema) — flower
  • German: Chrysantheme — flower
  • Greek: χρυσάνθεμο (chrysánthemo) — flower
  • Ancient Greek: χρυσάνθεμον (khrusánthemon) — flower
  • Hebrew: חַרְצִית (ẖartzít) — flower
  • Hindi: गुलदाउदी (guldāudī) — flower
  • Hungarian: krizantém — flower
  • Hungarian: margitvirág — flower
  • Ido: krizantemo — flower
  • Indonesian: seruni — flower
  • Irish: criosantamam — flower
  • Italian: crisantemo — flower
  • Japanese: 菊 (kiku) — flower
  • Javanese: seruni — flower
  • Javanese: krisan — flower
  • Kannada: ಸೇವಂತಿಗೆ (sēvantige) — flower
  • Kazakh: бақытгүл (baqytgül) — flower
  • Khmer: ផ្កាស្បៃរឿងទេស (pkaa sbay rɨəng teeh) — flower
  • Komi-Permyak: хризантэма (xrizantema) — flower
  • Komi-Zyrian: хризантема (xrizanťema) — flower
  • Korean: 국화 (gukhwa) — flower
  • Latin: chrysanthemum — flower
  • Latvian: krizantēmas — flower
  • Lithuanian: skaistažiedė — flower
  • Lithuanian: chrizantema — flower
  • Livvi: hrizantiemu — flower
  • : ᦋᦲᧉᦩᦱᧈ (tsii2xwaa1) — flower
  • Macedonian: хризантема (hrizantema) — flower
  • Malagasy: krizantema — flower
  • Malay: kekwa — flower
  • Malayalam: ജമന്തി (jamanti) — flower
  • Manchu: ᠪᠣᠵᡳᡵᡳ ᡳᠯᡥᠠ (bojiri ilha) — flower
  • Marathi: शेवंती (śevantī) — flower
  • Eastern Mari: хризантема (hrizantema) — flower
  • Western Mari: хризантема (hrizantema) — flower
  • Mongolian: шиваантиг (šivaantig) — flower
  • Nepali: गोदावरीI (godāwarīI) — flower
  • Norwegian Bokmål: krysantemum — flower
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: krysantemum — flower
  • Occitan: crisantèm — flower
  • Pali: วิตุนฺน (vitunna) — flower
  • Pali: สุนิสนฺนา (sunisannā) — flower
  • Pali: สุนิปณฺณก (sunipaṇṇaka) — flower
  • Pannonian Rusyn: єшеньска ружа (ješenʹska ruža) — flower
  • Pannonian Rusyn: хризантема (xrizantema) — flower
  • Persian: داوودی (dâvudi) — flower
  • Persian: کوپل (kupal) — flower
  • Picard: sinte-catrine — flower
  • Picard: grizintinme — flower
  • Picard: crizintinme — flower
  • Polish: chryzantema — flower
  • Polish: jastrun — flower
  • Polish: jastruń — flower
  • Polish: złocień — flower
  • Portuguese: crisântemo — flower
  • Punjabi: ਗੁਲਦਾਊਦੀ (guldāūdī) — flower
  • Romanian: crizantemă — flower
  • Russian: хризанте́ма (xrizantɛ́ma) — flower
  • Serbo-Croatian: кризанте́ма — flower
  • Serbo-Croatian: хризанте́ма — flower
  • Serbo-Croatian: krizantéma — flower
  • Serbo-Croatian: hrizantéma — flower
  • Sicilian: crisantemu — flower
  • Slovak: chryzantéma — flower
  • Slovene: krizantéma — flower
  • Lower Sorbian: chryzantema — flower
  • Upper Sorbian: chryzantema — flower
  • Spanish: crisantemo — flower
  • Sundanese: krisan — flower
  • Swedish: krysantemum — flower
  • Tagalog: rosas-Hapon — flower
  • Tagalog: krisantemo — flower
  • Tamil: சிவந்தி (civanti) — flower
  • Tamil: செவ்வந்தி (cevvanti) — flower
  • Telugu: చామంతి (cāmanti) — flower
  • Thai: เบญจมาศ (been-jà-mâat) — flower
  • Tibetan: མེ་ཏོག་ལུག་མིག (me tog lug mig) — flower
  • Turkish: kasımpatı — flower
  • Turkish: krizantem — flower
  • Turkish: pat — flower
  • Udmurt: хризантема (xrizanťema) — flower
  • Ukrainian: хризанте́ма (xryzantéma) — flower
  • Uzbek: хризантема (xrizantema) — flower
  • Uzbek: xrizantema — flower
  • Vietnamese: cúc đại đóa — flower
  • Walloon: sinte-Catrene — flower
  • Walloon: crizantinme — flower
  • Welsh: blodyn Mihangel — flower
  • Yiddish: כריזאַנטעמע (khrizanteme) — flower
  • Zhuang: vagut — flower
  • Zhuang: va'gyuk — flower