CAT'S-EAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cat's-ear mean? 

• CAT'S-EAR (noun)
  The noun CAT'S-EAR has 2 senses:

1. any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears

2. European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears

  Familiarity information: CAT'S-EAR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAT'S-EAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cat's-ear" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Holonyms ("cat's-ear" is a member of...):

Calochortus; genus Calochortus (large genus of western North American leafy-stemmed bulbous herbs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

California dandelion; capeweed; cat's-ear; gosmore; Hypochaeris radicata

Hypernyms ("cat's-ear" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("cat's-ear" is a member of...):

genus Hypochaeris; genus Hypochoeris; Hypochaeris; Hypochoeris (widely distributed genus of herbs with milky juice; includes some cosmopolitan weeds)