Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Tragopogon pratensis, a European composite plant with long and coarse pappus.
- noun The Spirœa Aruncus: so called from the arrangement of its many slender spikes of small flowers in a long panicle. A very similar plant, Astilbe decandra, is known as false goat's-beard.
- noun Any one of several fungi of the genus Clavaria.
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- noun A yellow-flowered Eurasian plant, of the genus Tragopogon.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of the big floral letdowns of the summer is the goat's-beard (Tragopogon pratensis) – just now showing promise in waysides and meadows.
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So I concluded that the talk was the usual nonsense, and I daresay I'd have sold it and thought no more about it, if the goat's-beard man hadn't come in the first thing the next morning.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various
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We have already mentioned the Marigold; the goat's-beard is vulgarly called
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) Various
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And Summerlee, too, there he was with his short briar between his thin moustache and his gray goat's-beard, his worn face protruded in eager debate as he queried all Challenger's propositions.
The Lost World 1912
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Summerlee, too, there he was with his short briar between his thin moustache and his gray goat's-beard, his worn face protruded in eager debate as he queried all Challenger's propositions.
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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On the contrary, he was fingering the white goat's-beard with one nervous hand, and apparently listening half-absently to the clamor in the street.
Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893
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The president's thin lips were drawn into straight lines, and the thin goat's-beard stood out at the argumentative angle.
Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893
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That turns its goat's-beard flakes of peagreen moss
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The grass mounts high, but not higher than the oxeye daisies, the blue racemes of stachys, the mauve-coloured heads of scabious, the bladder-campions, the yellow buttercups and goat's-beard.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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The head had a red nose, and wore a long American goat's-beard and a blue seaman's cap.
Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel Alexander Lange Kielland 1877
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