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[syn: meadow salsify, goatsbeard, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Goat's beard \Goat's beard\, goatsbeard \goatsbeard\n. (Bot.),
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.
Syn: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon
pratensis.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sleep-at-noon \Sleep"-at-noon"\, n. (Bot.)
A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at
midday; a kind of goat's beard. --Dr. Prior.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Joseph's flower \Jo"seph's flow"er\ (Bot.)
A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus
as the salsify.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Tragopogon pratensis
n 1: weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in
United States [syn: meadow salsify, goatsbeard,
shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis]