Crossword clues for goatsbeard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goat's beard \Goat's beard\, goatsbeard \goatsbeard\n. (Bot.), A weedy European annual with yellow flowers, of the genus Tragopogon; -- so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant; it is naturalized in US.
Syn: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of goat's-beard English)
WordNet
n. weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States [syn: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis]
Wikipedia
Goatsbeard or Goat's beard may refer to:
- Aruncus, in the family Rosaceae
- Tragopogon, in the family Asteraceae
- Astilbe, some species of which are known as "False Goat's Beard"
Usage examples of "goatsbeard".
So rode they down the Side, through deep peaceful meadows fair with white ox-eye daisies, bluebells and yellow goatsbeard and sea campion, deep-blue gentians, agrimony and wild marjoram, and pink clover and bindweed and great yellow buttercups feasting on the sun.
A barrier of tough, five-foot-high prairie cordgrass was mixed with what might have been goatsbeard and massive clumps of aureola.