The Collaborative International Dictionary
goldenrod \gold"en*rod`\, golden-rod \gold"en-rod`\(g[=o]ld"'n*r[o^]d`), n. (Bot.) A tall herb ( Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing small yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago.
Golden-rod tree (Bot.), a shrub ( Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.
Usage examples of "golden-rod".
The azaleas succeeded to the anemones, the orchis and trillium followed, then the yellow gerardias and the feathery purple pogonias, and finally the growing gleam of the golden-rods along the wood-side and the red umbels of the tall eupatoriums in the meadow announced the close of summer.
The pink spirea had cast its feathery petals by the gray stone walls, but the welcome golden-rod bloomed in royal profusion along the brown waysides, and a crimson leaf hung here and there in the treetops, just to give a hint of the fall styles in color.
I was weaving garlands in the field, I heard a primrose tell this tale to her friend Golden-Rod.