Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small slender woolly annual (
Lasthenia chrysostoma ) with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; it grows from Southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; -- it is often cultivated.
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- noun Plural form of
goldfield .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated
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Examples
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Amongst the many industries started on the goldfields is the novel occupation of clearing clay-water for salt.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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I was standing before an exhibit of facsimiles of the record nuggets which had been discovered in the goldfields of the Antipodes.
THE HUSSY 2010
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Nevada goldfields, and returned to her a many-times millionaire.
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Using the small fortune he made in the California goldfields, Daggett started up the Golden Era in 1852.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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The 1849 gold rush had temporarily emptied the city, as San Franciscans joined the manic exodus to the nearby goldfields, but the streets quickly filled up again with bankers, shippers, merchants, and saloonkeepers, all dedicated to helping the Forty-niners alternately save, spend, lose, or waste their hard-earned riches.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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The 1849 gold rush had temporarily emptied the city, as San Franciscans joined the manic exodus to the nearby goldfields, but the streets quickly filled up again with bankers, shippers, merchants, and saloonkeepers, all dedicated to helping the Forty-niners alternately save, spend, lose, or waste their hard-earned riches.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Using the small fortune he made in the California goldfields, Daggett started up the Golden Era in 1852.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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"Provided the goldfields are manned entirely by decadent Frog poets, we'll make a bloody fortune," says I. "Thank God we shan't have to go through Customs."
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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They were the bones of would-be prospectors who had attempted to cut through Texas to reach the burgeoning California goldfields.
Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010
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They were the bones of would-be prospectors who had attempted to cut through Texas to reach the burgeoning California goldfields.
Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010
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