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1. any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears

2. European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears

1. : a European weed (Hypochaeris radicata) now widely naturalized in No. America that has yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ear — called also California dandelion, capeweed, gosmore

2. : any of various plants with soft hairy blossoms or leaves (as the cudweed or the hawkweed)

3. West : a plant of the genus Calochortus

/kats"ear'/, n.

1. Also called gosmore. any of several Old World composite plants of the genus Hypochaeris, having leaves in a rosette at the base and dandelionlike yellow or white flowers, esp. H. radicata, naturalized as a weed in the western U.S.

2. any western American plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as C. coeruleus or C. elegans, having white or bluish bell-shaped flowers.

[1840-50]

cat'sˈ-ear noun

Any plant of the European genus Hypochoeris of the family Compositae, having yellow dandelion-like flowers

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