Crossword clues for goldenrod
goldenrod
- State flower of Nebraska
- Any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago
- Auric wand in the garden?
- Potent allergen
- Lustrous length?
- Neb.'s state flower
- Note former cane plant with yellow flowers
- Plant study by staff after record's retrieved
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of a golden-yellow colour, like that of the goldenrod plant. n. 1 Any tall-stemmed plant principally from genus ''Solidago'' (also (taxlink Oligoneuron genus noshow=1)), usually with clusters of small yellow flowers. 2 A golden-yellow colour, like that of the goldenrod plant.
WordNet
n. any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago
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Housing Units (2000): 5575
Land area (2000): 2.593276 sq. miles (6.716555 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.131169 sq. miles (0.339725 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.724445 sq. miles (7.056280 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26475
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 28.612827 N, 81.294060 W
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Wikipedia
Solidago, commonly called goldenrods, is a genus of about 100 to 120 species of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. Most are herbaceous perennial species found in open areas such as meadows, prairies, and savannas. They are mostly native to North America, including Mexico; a few species are native to South America and Eurasia. Some American species have also been introduced into Europe and other parts of the world.
Goldenrod is a yellow flowering plant in the Family Asteraceae.
Goldenrod may also refer to:
- Goldenrod (color), a color defined by the W3C for use in Scalable Vector Graphics as RGB (218, 165, 32)
- Goldenrod Records, a record label
- Goldenrod (car), the name of the 1965 land speed record car
- Goldenrod (showboat), a National Historic Landmark in Missouri
- Goldenrod, Florida, a community in the United States
- "Goldenrod", a song from the band Blondie's album, The Curse of Blondie
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, an American cargo ship in service 1928-35
Goldenrod is an American streamliner car which held the wheel-driven land speed record from 1965 to 1991. It was owned by Bob and Bill Summers, of Ontario, California. Bob Summers drove the car to set the land speed record. The Goldenrod is powered by four fuel injected Chrysler Hemi engines, mounted inline and created a total output of 2,400 bhp. The car was originally built in Southern California and the team included James Crosby.
Before finding their final success, the two brothers contacted a fuel specialist and racing equipment pioneer and inventor named Tony Capanna, owner of Wilcap Co. (at that time in Torrance California). They were having trouble getting the speed they wanted with the 4 engines set in 2 rows side by side. Capanna suggested they put the engines in line and have it streamlined. In this configuration it was called Goldenrod. Capanna advised them to get aerodynamic advice from a Lockheed engineer, Walter Korff. The Goldenrod configuration was refined during a wind tunnel test in the Caltech 10-foot wind tunnel. The resulting drag coefficient of 0.1165, with a front area of 8.53 square feet, is one of the lowest ever achieved for a car.
The brothers found success on November 12, 1965, when Goldenrod set the wheel-driven record (a class introduced due to the controversy over Spirit of America) at 409.277 mph (658.64 km/h) over the flying mile, an FIA record which was held for 42 years 9 months and 14 days. It was unofficially broken in 1991 by Al Teague with his supercharged Hemi-powered Spirit of '76, which went 409.986 mph (659.81 km/h) which was short of the one percent increase required for an official record which would have been at least 413.36977 mph. Later the Burklands' 411 Streamliner set the official new record at 415.896 mph (669.319 km/h) on 2008/09/26 (Class AI-I-11). Goldenrod was not supercharged, so it still held the class (AI-II-11) record until 21 September 2010, when Charles Nearburg in the Spirit of Rett increased this to 414.316 mph. The car went on tour for many years all across the U.S., then first ventured outside the country in 2000, when it was placed where the cricket pitch is, in the Goodwood Festival of Speed with the other land speed record cars. The surviving Summers brother, Bill, attended (Bob died in 1992).
The Henry Ford museum bought the car in 2002, restored her via a US government grant ( Save America's Treasures), and had her on display as of September 2006. The restoration was performed by former Hot Rod Magazine editor John Baechtel of Landspeed Restorations and Mike Cook of Cook Motorsports, with grateful acknowledgment to the many contributors who supported the project.
“It’s about time it went away,” Bill Summers told "LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth during an interview on the new record, “It’s been a long time to have that record - 44 years, 10 months and 12 days. My brother Butch and I did everything we could with that car and then sold it to the Henry Ford Museum."
Speaking of Charles Nearburg finally breaking Bob Summers' record, Bill Summers said: "That he [Nearburg] achieved those speeds with only two-wheel drive and one naturally aspirated engine is a phenomenal achievement, but they had good course conditions and when conditions are good, cars go fast." Bill Summers died on 12 May 2011.
Usage examples of "goldenrod".
Experiments with line-rearing of bees, discovered that a dysone made from goldenrod would speed the development of bees, Administered in larger quantities than the bees would receive from nature, it produced giant larvae that failed to mature.
She went to the fencerow and broke off stems of goldenrod and aster and filled the pail with them.
Just as things come ripe, the creatures always set their webs, sewn with perfect zigzag seams, across the swathes of grass, jewelweed, goldenrod, milkweed, and burdock behind the sagging barn.
Drawing their palms over grass, goldenrod, and white alyssum, they walked toward the common line, fourteen of them, their yellow silk cassocks whipped by wind and fiery convections, the five snakes about each of their throats outstretched, like the spokes of a candelabra, searching every direction.
Countryside covered with pink wild roses, blazing goldenrod and waving prairie grass suddenly turned into perfect sections of bluegrass and gray pavement sprinkled with plastic swing sets and Big Wheels.
The Troupe was cam~ west of El Reno on Interstate 40, an area of red cliifs of crumbling sandstone, red soil, creek bottoms full of pecans and as p ens and festooned with honeysuckle, a place of goldenrod and winecup and coneflowers and trailing purple legume.
There was alpine fireweed, stonecrop, bog orchids and purple asters, goldenrod and brown-eyed Susan, all flourishing and bright in a landscape that was predominantly gray and leprous white.
The place was a maze, a rat warren of halfbuilt stores and shops, discarded lengths of pipe, piles of cinderblock and boards, shacks and rusted Quonset huts, all overgrown with scrubby junipers and laurels and witch-grass and blue spruce, blackberry and blackthorn, devil's paintbrush and denuded goldenrod.
Goldenrod, purple bull thistles, and lacy wild carrot swayed in the breezes above the tall grasses.
She turned toward the open French window, where bees hummed over a herbaceous border of goldenrod and phlox.
Carrying a small pack on his back and the new hive frames on his shoulder, Charlie is gesturing to the left, pointing out the honey plants for this late in the season: clusters of sweet clover and spikes of goldenrod.
It's late in the season when I fly up, the August fields awash with milkweed, goldenrod, and great purple sweeps of joe-pye weed.
The harvesting of milkweed and goldenrod are discussed below, in their own sections, while guayule and Russian dandelion are relegated to Appendices.
In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life-everlasting, johnswort and goldenrod, shrub oaks and sand cherry, blueberry and groundnut.
I'd noticed a flower that looked a bit like a stunted goldenrod in the area where the sheep were grazing, however, and some succulents sort of like bloodroot.