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STARFLOWER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does starflower mean?
• STARFLOWER (noun)
The noun STARFLOWER has 1 sense:
1. common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States
Familiarity information: STARFLOWER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Ornithogalum umbellatum; sleepy dick; starflower; summer snowflake
Hypernyms ("starflower" is a kind of...):
star-of-Bethlehem (any of several perennial plants of the genus Ornithogalum native to the Mediterranean and having star-shaped flowers)
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