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    STARFLOWER

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United Statesplay

    Synonyms:

    Ornithogalum umbellatum; sleepy dick; starflower; summer snowflake

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    star-of-Bethlehem (any of several perennial plants of the genus Ornithogalum native to the Mediterranean and having star-shaped flowers)

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