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goatsbeard
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun goatsbeard has 1 sense
- goatsbeard(n = noun.plant) meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, tragopogon pratensis - weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States; Array is a kind of wild flower, wildflower
is a member of genus tragopogon, tragopogon
CIDE DICTIONARY
goatsbeard, n.
A weedy European annual with yellow flowers, of the genus Tragopogon ; -- so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant ; it is naturalized in US. [1913 Webster]
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