Did you by any chance mean one of these? goatherd, graybeard
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several Eurasian species of the genus Tragopogon, especially T. pratensis, a weed widely naturalized in eastern North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow, dandelionlike flower heads.
- n. A genus (Aruncus) of dioecious plants, native to the north temperate and subarctic zones, having bi- to tri-pinnately compound leaves and a large panicle of small white flowers.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of goat's-beard.
WordNet 3.0
- n. weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
Examples
“Tragopogon miscellus and T. mirus, two allopolyploid species of goatsbeard, may have formed as many as 20 and 12 times, respectively, in eastern Washington and adjacent Idaho (USA) in only the past 60 – 70 years; multiple polyploidizations have even occurred within single small towns”
“There are dozens of others, such as thistle's starburst, goldenrod's tufts, dogbane, wild artichoke and goatsbeard.”
“He’s the spatton spit, so he is, scaly skin and all, with his blackguarded eye and the goatsbeard in his buttinghole of Shemuel Tulliver, me grandsourd, the old cruxader, when he off with his paudeen!”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘goatsbeard’.
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Goats
goat, goats, goatee, goatsbeard, The Goat, or Who ..., scapegoat, Goats Head Soup, billy goat, nanny goat, he-goat, she-goat, Goat Island and 58 more...
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The Garden on Ryons Street
I spent a few seasons doing gardening work for a former English professor. This is just a list of some of the friends I made in her garden. (Some of these plants spent the winter inside, of course.)
filipendula, Tradescantia, eglantine, Ispahan, Comtesse de Murinais, Crested Moss, rugosa rose, goutweed, creeping charlie, buttercup, lilac, cedar and 97 more...
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