Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Hypochæris, weedy chicory-like composites of Europe: so called from the shape of the leaves. The name is also applied to Gnaphalium dioicum.
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- noun any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears
- noun European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears
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Examples
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In the warm afternoon sunshine bees still hum among the browning heather; brambles still bear a few darkly purple berries, remains of umbellifers stand dry and starkly angular, but the bright yellow cat's-ear still flowers along the margins of the path.
Country diary: South Uist Christine Smith 2010
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Every now and then he found it necessary to reconnoiter a place and call back late at night swathed in black, hooded with a cat's-ear hood, and armed with sword and dagger.
Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987
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In the warm afternoon sunshine bees still hum among the browning heather; brambles still bear a few darkly purple berries, remains of umbellifers stand dry and starkly angular, but the bright yellow cat's-ear still flowers along the margins of the path.
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