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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of plants, natural order Compositæ, containing numerous species of herbaceous annuals with milky juice, natives of Europe and Asia, with several species in western North America; the hawk's-beard.
  • noun In sponge-spicules, the central axis of a desma.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun A genus of plants including the hawk's beard; cosmopolitan in the northern hemisphere.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun hawk's-beard; cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere

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