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Goatsbeard

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Noun

1. goatsbeard, meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, tragopogon pratensis

weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Goatsbeard

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noun
1. Also called: Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon
a Eurasian plant, Tragopogon pratensis, with woolly stems and large heads of yellow rayed flowers surrounded by large green bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
2. 
an American rosaceous plant, Aruncus sylvester, with long spikes of small white flowers

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Goatsbeard

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noun
1. 
a hardy plant (Aruncus dioicus) of the rose family, with spikes of white flowers in clusters
2. 
any of a genus (Tragopogon) of plants of the composite family, with flower heads and seed heads that resemble large dandelions, as salsify

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Goatsbeard

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n.
1. Any of several Eurasian plants of the genus Tragopogon of the composite family, having grasslike leaves and yellow, dandelionlike flower heads, some species of which are widely naturalized in North America.
2. Any of several dioecious plants of the genus Aruncus of the rose family, native to northern regions, having pinnately compound leaves and a large panicle of small white flowers.

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