| 单词 | compass plant |
| 释义 | compass plant (once / 1074483 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY compass plant USAGE EXAMPLESTHE leaves of the compass plant always point north. Economist(Apr 28, 2011) I never seen but one good compass plant, an' that was the prairie Golden Rod. Seton, Ernest Thompson, Two Little Savages—Being the adven...(2010) We saw also the compass plant, and the western tea plant. Fuller, Margaret, Summer on the Lakes, in 1843(2010) 1 n any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper compass flower Lactuca scariola, Lactuca serriola, horse thistle, prickly lettuce European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States Silphium laciniatum, rosinweedNorth American perennial having a resinous odor and yellow flowers composite, composite plant considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers n North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers Syn|Hyper Lotus americanus, prairie bird's-foot trefoil, prairie lotus, prairie trefoil subshrub, suffrutex low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
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