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GOLDFIELDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does goldfields mean? 

GOLDFIELDS (noun)
  The noun GOLDFIELDS has 1 sense:

1. small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivatedplay

  Familiarity information: GOLDFIELDS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GOLDFIELDS (noun)


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Meaning:

Small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

goldfields; Lasthenia chrysostoma

Hypernyms ("goldfields" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("goldfields" is a member of...):

genus Lasthenia; Lasthenia (small genus of herbs of Pacific coast of North and South America)


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