ALPINE SUNFLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alpine sunflower mean? 

• ALPINE SUNFLOWER (noun)
  The noun ALPINE SUNFLOWER has 1 sense:

1. whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head; mountainous regions north central United States

  Familiarity information: ALPINE SUNFLOWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALPINE SUNFLOWER (noun)

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Meaning:

Whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head; mountainous regions north central United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

alpine sunflower; Hymenoxys grandiflora; old man of the mountain; Tetraneuris grandiflora

Hypernyms ("alpine sunflower" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("alpine sunflower" is a member of...):

genus Tetraneuris; Tetraneuris (genus of hairy yellow-flowered plants of the western United States)