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BLUE STAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue star mean? 

BLUE STAR (noun)
  The noun BLUE STAR has 1 sense:

1. subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymesplay

  Familiarity information: BLUE STAR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLUE STAR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amsonia tabernaemontana; blue star

Hypernyms ("blue star" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("blue star" is a member of...):

Amsonia; genus Amsonia (genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America)


 Context examples 


More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen.

(Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen, NASA)



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