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Meanings of shepherd's clock in English

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Weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States.

        Synonyms
        Examples for "goatsbeard"
        Examples for "goatsbeard"
        1
        They came over the canyon crest, through the bunchgrass and wild flax, between bushy clumps of goatsbeard.
        Seize the night
        2
        A barrier of tough, five-foot-high prairie cordgrass was mixed with what might have been goatsbeard and massive clumps of aureola.
        Fear nothing
        3
        Tragopogon luteum, yellow Goatsbeard, at 3- 5andat 9-10
        The Botanic Garden. Part II. / Containing the Loves of the Plant...
        Usage of shepherd's clock in English
        1
        As the flower is the shepherd's clock, so are the feathery seedtufts his barometer, predicting calm or storm.
        The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought / Studies of the Activit...