DOTTED GAYFEATHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dotted gayfeather mean? 

• DOTTED GAYFEATHER (noun)
  The noun DOTTED GAYFEATHER has 1 sense:

1. herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico

  Familiarity information: DOTTED GAYFEATHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOTTED GAYFEATHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dotted gayfeather; Liatris punctata

Hypernyms ("dotted gayfeather" is a kind of...):

blazing star; button snakeroot; gay-feather; gayfeather; snakeroot (any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads)