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GOLDEN GLOW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does golden glow mean?
• GOLDEN GLOW (noun)
The noun GOLDEN GLOW has 1 sense:
1. very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads
Familiarity information: GOLDEN GLOW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
double gold; golden glow; hortensia; Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia
Hypernyms ("golden glow" is a kind of...):
cutleaved coneflower; Rudbeckia laciniata (tall leafy plant with erect branches ending in large yellow flower heads with downward-arching rays; grow in Rocky Mountains south to Arizona and east to the Atlantic coast)
Holonyms ("golden glow" is a member of...):
genus Rudbeckia; Rudbeckia (North American perennial herbs with showy cone-shaped flower heads)
Context examples
He threw back his head, and there he stood in the golden glow with all his old Assyrian luxuriance of beard, all his native insolence of drooping eyelids and intolerant eyes.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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