noun
1. Texas annual with coarsely pinnatifid leaves; cultivated for its showy radiate yellow flower heads
• Syn: ↑Lindheimera texana
• Hypernyms: ↑flower
• Member Holonyms: ↑Lindheimera, ↑genus Lindheimera
2. prairie herb with solitary lilac-colored flowers
• Syn: ↑prairia Sabbatia, ↑Sabbatia campestris
• Hypernyms: ↑sabbatia
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nounUsage: usually capitalized T
1. : an annual Texan herb (Lindheimera texana) of the family Compositae sometimes cultivated for its rather showy radiate yellow heads
2. : prairie sabbatia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.