Search Result for "tragopogon_pratensis":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States;
[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]