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GAY-FEATHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
Synonyms:
blazing star; button snakeroot; gay-feather; gayfeather; snakeroot
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gay-feather" is a kind of...):
wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gay-feather"):
dotted gayfeather; Liatris punctata (herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico)
dense blazing star; Liatris pycnostachya (perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers; often cultivated for cut flowers)
Holonyms ("gay-feather" is a member of...):
genus Liatris; Liatris (genus of perennial North American herbs with aromatic usually cormous roots)
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