GOLDEN STARS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does golden stars mean? 

• GOLDEN STARS (noun)
  The noun GOLDEN STARS has 1 sense:

1. California plant having grasslike leaves and showy orange flowers

  Familiarity information: GOLDEN STARS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLDEN STARS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

California plant having grasslike leaves and showy orange flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bloomeria crocea; golden star; golden stars

Hypernyms ("golden stars" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Holonyms ("golden stars" is a member of...):

Bloomeria; genus Bloomeria (small genus of bulbous perennial herbs of southwestern United States and Mexico; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae)

 Context examples 

In the centre of the dais were two very high chairs with dorserets, which arched forwards over the heads of the occupants, the whole covered with light-blue silk thickly powdered with golden stars.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)