BLAZING STAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blazing star mean? 

• BLAZING STAR (noun)
  The noun BLAZING STAR has 2 senses:

1. biennial of southwestern United States having white stems and toothed leaves that is grown for its large pale yellow flowers that open in early morning

2. any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads

  Familiarity information: BLAZING STAR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLAZING STAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Biennial of southwestern United States having white stems and toothed leaves that is grown for its large pale yellow flowers that open in early morning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blazing star; Mentzelia laevicaulis; Mentzelia livicaulis

Hypernyms ("blazing star" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Holonyms ("blazing star" is a member of...):

genus Mentzelia; Mentzelia (genus of bristly herbs or subshrubs of western America lacking stinging hairs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blazing star; button snakeroot; gay-feather; gayfeather; snakeroot

Hypernyms ("blazing star" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blazing star"):

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 ("blazing star" is a member of...):

genus Liatris; Liatris (genus of perennial North American herbs with aromatic usually cormous roots)