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ˈgoat's-ˌbeard
The name of various plants.
1. Spiræa Ulmaria, meadow-sweet.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. xxix. 41 This herbe is called in Latine Barba Capri..in English Medewurte and Medesweete, and of some after the Latine name Goates bearde. 1605Timme Quersit. iii. 177 Goates beard otherwise called meed⁓wort. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 207 Goats-beard groweth verie well in a moist ground..The Latines call it Vlmaria, because the leaues are like to the leaues of Elme. 1882Garden 27 May 376/3 Spiræa Aruncus astilboides, a plant similar to the Goat's Beard.
2. Tragopogon pratensis; also T. porrifolius, salsify.
1548Turner Names of Herbes (1881) 19 Barba Hirci named in greeke Tragopogon..It maye be called in englishe gotes bearde. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccxli. §1. 594 Goates beard or Go to bedde at noone hath hollow stalkes, smooth, and of a whitish greene colour. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 411 The Sommer Goates beard..is a small plant rising up with one stalke little above a foote high. 1699Evelyn Acetaria 28 Goats-beard..is excellent even in Sallet, and very Nutritive. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet i. 250 Goat's beard, an alimentary Root, has most of the qualities of Scorzonera. 1796C. Marshall Garden. xix. (1813) 353 Goats beard, the young shoots are eat (as those of salsafy) like asparagus at spring. a1806C. Smith Beachy Head etc. (1807) 113 The Goatsbeard spreads its golden rays. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. ii. (ed. 4) 122 The purple goat's-beard, the leopard's-bane..are well-favoured plants.
3. Some species of mushroom. ? Obs.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 55/2 There are several kinds of these Mushrooms, as..the Goat's Beard, of which there are the reddish one and the spongy one and the Pepper tasted one. 1854Mayne Expos. Lex., Goat's-Beard Mushroom, common name for the Clavaria coralloides. |