Tragopogon pratensis, a European composite plant with long and coarse pappus.' name='description'> goat's-beard - definition and meaning

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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From goat + beard, in translation of Greek τραγοπώγον or Latin barba capri.

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Examples

  • One of the big floral letdowns of the summer is the goat's-beard (Tragopogon pratensis) – just now showing promise in waysides and meadows.

    Country diary: North Derbyshire 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • That turns its goat's-beard flakes of peagreen moss

    THE BORDERERS A Tragedy 1888

  • 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

  • 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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