- 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)
- an American rosaceous plant, Aruncus sylvester, with long spikes of small white flowers
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goats•beard
(gōts′bērd′),USA pronunciation n.
- Plant Biologyany of several composite plants of the genus Tragopogon, esp. T. pratensis, having yellow flower heads.
- Plant Biologya plant, Aruncus dioicus, of the rose family, having pinnate leaves and long, slender spikes of small white flowers.
- goat + -'s1 + beard 1570–80
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goatsbeard, goat's-beard /ˈɡəʊtsˌbɪəd/ n
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