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GAYFEATHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gayfeather mean? 

GAYFEATHER (noun)
  The noun GAYFEATHER has 1 sense:

1. any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower headsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GAYFEATHER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blazing star; button snakeroot; gay-feather; gayfeather; snakeroot

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

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gayfeather"):

dotted gayfeather; Liatris punctata (herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico)

dense blazing star; Liatris pycnostachya (perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers; often cultivated for cut flowers)

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

genus Liatris; Liatris (genus of perennial North American herbs with aromatic usually cormous roots)


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