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DOTTED GAYFEATHER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dotted gayfeather mean?
• DOTTED GAYFEATHER (noun)
The noun DOTTED GAYFEATHER has 1 sense:
1. herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico
Familiarity information: DOTTED GAYFEATHER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
dotted gayfeather; Liatris punctata
Hypernyms ("dotted gayfeather" is a kind of...):
blazing star; button snakeroot; gay-feather; gayfeather; snakeroot (any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads)
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