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    GAYFEATHER

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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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