Definition of Gay-feather

1. Noun. Any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Gay-feather

gawp
gawped
gawper
gawpers
gawping
gawpingly
gawps
gawpus
gawpuses
gawsie
gawsier
gawsiest
gawsy
gay-feather (current term)
gay-friendliness
gay-marry
gay 90s
gay apparel
gay bars
gay blades
gay bomb
gay boy

Literary usage of Gay-feather

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"L. pycnostachya, Kansas gay-feather, comes from the prairies of the far West, and grows five feet high, with a very dense spike of flowers ten to twenty ..."

2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"Dense button-snakeroot; colic-root; prairie-pine; gay-feather; rattlesnake- master; corn-snakeroot; backache-root. Native, perennial herb, 2 to 5 feet high, ..."

3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Large Button-Snakeroot, gay-feather, Rattlesnake's- master, Blue Blazing-star, Devil 's-bit. Root of this and following species reputed diuretic, ..."

4. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"The Large Button Snakeroot, Blue Blazing Star, or Gay Feather (L. scariosa), ... The name of gay feather, miscellaneously applied to several blazing stars, ..."

5. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1890)
"Gay feather, button snake- root. Several species of the Liatris are natives of Minnesota and on account of ... Gay feather, grows in woods and brush lands, ..."

6. The Ohio Educational Monthly by Ohio State Teachers Association (1900)
"... attired brother, gay feather, — L. Scariosa,—whose beautiful clusters of rose-purple flowers are set in coats of mail which add an additional beauty. ..."

7. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"The Large Button Snakeroot, Blue Blazing Star, or Gay Feather (L, scariosa), ... The name of gay feather, miscellaneously applied to several blazing stars, ..."

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