noun
any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
• Syn: ↑blazing star, ↑button snakeroot, ↑gayfeather, ↑snakeroot
• Hypernyms: ↑wildflower, ↑wild flower
• Hyponyms: ↑dotted gayfeather, ↑Liatris punctata, ↑dense blazing star, ↑Liatris pycnostachya
• Member Holonyms: ↑Liatris, ↑genus Liatris
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/gay"fedh'euhr/, n.
any of several composite plants of the genus Liatris, esp. L. spicata or L. scariosa, having hairy leaves and long clusters of purplish flowers.
[1810-20, Amer.]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.