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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nigella /nʌɪˈdʒɛlə/

▶noun a plant of a genus which includes love-in-a-mist. [Genus Nigella.]

– origin mod. L., fem. of L. nigellus, dimin. of niger ‘black’.

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