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goatsbeard

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.

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goatsbeard

n. (alternative spelling of goat's-beard English)

WordNet
goatsbeard

n. weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States [syn: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis]

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Goatsbeard

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.