GOLD OF PLEASURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gold of pleasure mean? 

• GOLD OF PLEASURE (noun)
  The noun GOLD OF PLEASURE has 1 sense:

1. annual European false flax having small white flowers; cultivated since Neolithic times as a source of fiber and for its oil-rich seeds; widely naturalized in North America

  Familiarity information: GOLD OF PLEASURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLD OF PLEASURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual European false flax having small white flowers; cultivated since Neolithic times as a source of fiber and for its oil-rich seeds; widely naturalized in North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Camelina sativa; gold of pleasure

Hypernyms ("gold of pleasure" is a kind of...):

crucifer; cruciferous plant (any of various plants of the family Cruciferae)

Holonyms ("gold of pleasure" is a member of...):

Camelina; false flax; genus Camelina (annual and biennial herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia)