What is "blazing star"

Colicroot \Col"ic*root`\, n. A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike ( Aletris farinosa and Aletris aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.

n. 1 (&lit blazing star English) 2 (label en archaic) A comet. 3 Any of various plants including: 4 # (taxlink Chamaelirium luteum species noshow=1) of the lily family. 5 # (taxlink Aletris farinosa species noshow=1), also called colicroot and star grass. 6 # (taxlink Mentzelia laevicaulis species noshow=1) 7 (alternative form of blazingstar nodot=1 English), many plants of genus (taxlink Liatris genus noshow=1).

1. n. biennial of southwestern United States having lustrous-white stems and toothed leaves grown for its large pale yellow flowers that open in early morning [syn: Mentzelia livicaulis, Mentzelia laevicaulis]

2. any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads [syn: button snakeroot, gayfeather, gay-feather, snakeroot]

is a scrolling shooter video game for the Neo Geo home game system. It is the sequel to Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise. A typically hefty Neo Geo ROM at 346 Mb, the game makes extensive use of pseudo-3D prerendered sprites, brief anime and CGI cutscenes (mostly during the intro sequence), and frequent Engrish voice samples and captions.

Blazing star can refer to:

• Blazing Star, a video game
• Blazing Star, a lesbian group that was part of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union
• Blazing Star, the newsletter produced by the lesbian group that was part of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union
• The Blazing Star, the journal of the North American Native Plant Society