goatsbeard

[gohts-beerd]

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any of several composite plants of the genus Tragopogon, especially T. pratensis, having yellow flower heads.
a plant, Aruncus dioicus, of the rose family, having pinnate leaves and long, slender spikes of small white flowers.

goatsbeard

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Also called: Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon.��a Eurasian plant, Tragopogon pratensis, with woolly stems and large heads of yellow rayed flowers surrounded by large green bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
an American rosaceous plant, Aruncus sylvester, with long spikes of small white flowers

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1570–80; goat + -'s 1 + beard

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Drooping hemlocks, festooned with goatsbeard lichen, keep the spot in cool, somber gloom even on the hottest midday.

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At 3 A.M. the yellow meadow goatsbeard awakes--also brides--and then, too, the stable-boy begins rattling and feeding the horses under the lodger.

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