blazing star

Noun

Meaning

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

biennial of southwestern United States having white stems and toothed leaves that is grown for its large pale yellow flowers that open in early morning

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

snakeroot gayfeather button snakeroot gay-feather Mentzelia laevicaulis Mentzelia livicaulis sirius colicroot dog star rattlesnake root star grass dense blazing star devil's bit fairy wand burning star

Hypernyms

flower wildflower wild flower

Hyponyms

dotted gayfeather Liatris punctata dense blazing star Liatris pycnostachya

Examples

In that instant when I had seen the blazing star that was the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos. Olaf Stapledon

Close letter words and terms

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