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COMPASS PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compass plant mean? 

COMPASS PLANT (noun)
  The noun COMPASS PLANT has 2 senses:

1. North American annual with red or rose-colored flowersplay

2. any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compassplay

  Familiarity information: COMPASS PLANT used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COMPASS PLANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

compass plant; Lotus americanus; prairie bird's-foot trefoil; prairie lotus; prairie trefoil

Hypernyms ("compass plant" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

compass flower; compass plant

Hypernyms ("compass plant" is a kind of...):

composite; composite plant (considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compass plant"):

horse thistle; Lactuca scariola; Lactuca serriola; prickly lettuce (European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States)

rosinweed; Silphium laciniatum (North American perennial having a resinous odor and yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("compass plant" is a member of...):

aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)


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