Marigold
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Plants

  • Common marigold, Tagetes
    Tagetes
    Tagetes is a genus of 56 species of annual and perennial mostly herbaceous plants in the sunflower family . The genus is native to North and South America, but some species have become naturalized around the world. One species, T...

  • Pot marigold, Calendula
  • Mexican marigold, Tagetes erecta
  • Tree marigold, Tithonia diversifolia
  • Desert marigold, Baileya multiradiata
  • Corn marigold, Glebionis segetum
  • French marigold, Tagetes patula
  • Marsh marigold, Caltha palustris

Arts and entertainment

  • Marigold (1938 film), British film
  • Marigold (2007 film)
    Marigold (2007 film)
    Marigold is a 2007 romantic musical comedy about an American actress who becomes engrossed in the Bollywood film industry after visiting India...

    , Bollywood romantic comedic
  • "Marigolds" (short story)
    Marigolds (short story)
    "Marigolds" is a short story that is written by Eugenia Collier in 1969. She reports that she wrote the story during a time in which she was quite unhappy. She won the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction for it, and now considers Marigolds her favorite piece of fiction...

    , Bby Eugenia Collier
  • Marigold Sky
    Marigold Sky
    Marigold Sky is the fifteenth studio album by Hall & Oates, released in 1997 on Push Records.-Track listing:# "Romeo Is Bleeding" - 5:05# "Marigold Sky" - 4:59# "The Sky Is Falling" - 4:42...

    , 1997 album by Hall & Oates
  • "Marigold" (song)
    Marigold (song)
    "Marigold" is a song written and composed by American rock musician Dave Grohl, that was first released on Pocketwatch, an album Grohl issued under the pseudonym Late! in 1992....

    , a song by Nirvana on the B side of their single release "Heart-Shaped Box
    Heart-Shaped Box
    "Heart-Shaped Box" is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. The song was released as the first single from the group's third and final studio album, In Utero, in 1993. It was one of two songs from the album mixed by Scott Litt in order to augment...

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  • "Marigold - Gloria Swanson" a song by "The Hollies
    The Hollies
    The Hollies are an English pop and rock group, formed in Manchester in the early 1960s, though most of the band members are from throughout East Lancashire. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style, they became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s and 1970s...

    " on "Hollies Sing Hollies"-1969
  • "Marigold", a nickname for the character Winston Spencer Churchill in the British television series In Sickness and in Health
    In Sickness and in Health
    In Sickness and in Health was a BBC television sitcom which ran between 1985 and 1992. It was also a sequel to both the highly successful Til Death Us Do Part which ran between 1966 and 1975 and Till Death... which ran for one series in 1981.-Series 1:This comedy series debuted in 1985 and took...

  • "Marigold", a song by Sugarplum Fairy
    Sugarplum Fairy
    Sugarplum Fairy is a pop-rock band from Borlänge, Sweden. The members took the name from a version of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life" where John Lennon counts the song in by saying "sugar-plum-fairy, sugar-plum-fairy"...

  • "Marigold Flowers", a fictional character in Sue Townsend's Novel Adrian Mole and the weapons of mass destruction
  • "Marigold" a novelty piano solo composed by Billy Mayerl
    Billy Mayerl
    Billy Joseph Mayerl , was an English pianist and composer who built a career in music hall and musical theatre and became an acknowledged master of light music. Best known for his syncopated novelty piano solos, he wrote over 300 piano pieces, many of which were named after flowers and trees,...

  • "Marigold", a character in the webcomic Questionable Content
    Questionable Content
    Questionable Content is a slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. It was launched on August 1, 2003. Jacques currently makes his living exclusively from QC merchandising and advertising, making him one of the few professional webcomic artists...


Real

  • USS Marigold (1863)
    USS Marigold (1863)
    USS Marigold was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a tugboat, dispatch boat and also as a gunboat in the blockade of the Confederacy....

    , a ship used by the Union Navy during the American Civil War
  • HMS Marigold
    HMS Marigold
    Six ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Marigold, after the marigold flower.* The first Marigold was a 22-gun ship captured from the Portuguese in 1650 and sold 1658....

    • HMS Marigold (K87)
      HMS Marigold (K87)
      HMS Marigold was a of the Royal Navy.-Career:Marigold was launched from the yards of Hall, Russell & Company, of Aberdeen, Scotland on 16 November 1940...

      , a ship of the Royal Navy
  • USLHT Marigold
    USLHT Marigold
    The United States Lighthouse Tender Marigold was a lighthouse tender which served on the Great Lakes. She was launched in 1890 and delivered to the depot in Detroit early in 1891. The tender spent an unremarkable career in service, never needing a major retrofit and being drydocked only for a few...

    , a lighthouse tender which served on the Great Lakes

Fictional Ships

  • ?ENS? Marigold, the Emmerian flagship in Ace Combat 6, which resembles a Russian Kirov
    Kirov class cruiser
    The Kirov-class cruisers were six vessels built between 1935 and 1944 for the Soviet Navy: Kirov, Voroshilov, Maxim Gorky, Molotov, Kalinin, and Kaganovich. After the first two ships, armor protection was increased and subsequent ships are sometimes called the Maxim Gorky class...

    class battlecruiser

Colloquialisms

  • A Marigold is a rubber glove
    Rubber glove
    A rubber glove is a glove made out of rubber. Rubber gloves can be unsupported or supported . Its primary purpose is protection of the hands while performing tasks involving chemicals. Rubber gloves are worn during dishwashing to protect the hands from detergent and allow the use of hotter water...

     in British English, especially a yellow or orange one used for washing dishes

Films

  • Marigold (1938 film), a 1938 British drama film
  • Marigold (2007 film)
    Marigold (2007 film)
    Marigold is a 2007 romantic musical comedy about an American actress who becomes engrossed in the Bollywood film industry after visiting India...

    , a 2007 romantic musical comedy
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