golden : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum
  Scotch laburnum; Laburnum alpinum.
  

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• noun evergreen shrub similar to golden chinkapin; mountains of California
  Chrysolepis sempervirens.
  

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• noun a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak
  
  • it was the golden age of cinema
• noun any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness
  
• noun (classical mythology) the first and best age of the world, a time of ideal happiness, prosperity, and innocence; by extension, any flourishing and outstanding period
  

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• . (a) The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of manners in rural employments, followed by the silver, bronze, and iron ages. Dryden. (b) (Roman Literature) The best part (B. C. 81 A. D. 14) of the classical period of Latinity; the time when Cicero, Cæsar, Virgil, etc., wrote . Hence: (c) That period in the history of a literature, etc., when it flourishes in its greatest purity or attains its greatest glory; as, the Elizabethan age has been considered the golden age of English literature.

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• noun an elderly person
  oldster; old person; senior citizen.
  

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• noun algae having the pigments chlorophyll and carotene and xanthophyll
  

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• noun any of several shrubby herbs or subshrubs of the genus Chrysopsis having bright golden-yellow flower heads that resemble asters; throughout much of United States and into Canada
  

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• three gilt balls used as a sign of a pawnbroker's office or shop; originally taken from the coat of arms of Lombardy, the first money lenders in London having been Lombards.

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• noun large cactus of east central Mexico having golden to pale yellow flowers and spines
  Echinocactus grusonii.
  

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• noun a man who is unusually successful at an early age
  wonder boy.
  

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• . See under Bull, an edict.

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• noun common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally
  scented fern; tansy; Tanacetum vulgare.
  

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• noun (Old Testament) an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites to worship; destroyed by Moses; it is now used to refer to anything worshipped undeservedly
  

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• noun any of several callas of the genus Zantedeschia having yellow spathes
  

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• noun an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum; often cultivated for Easter decorations
  common laburnum; Laburnum anagyroides; golden chain.
  

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• (Bot.), the shrub Cytisus Laburnum, so named from its long clusters of yellow blossoms.

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• noun small ornamental evergreen tree of Pacific Coast whose glossy yellow-green leaves are yellow beneath; bears edible nuts
  Chrysolepis chrysophylla; Castanopsis chrysophylla; giant chinkapin; Castanea chrysophylla.
  

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• noun Chinese clematis with serrate leaves and large yellow flowers
  Clematis tangutica.
  

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• noun aquatic plant of the southeastern United States having blue-green leaves and a spadix resembling a club covered with tiny yellow flowers
  Orontium aquaticum.
  

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• (Bot.), an aquatic plant (Orontium aquaticum), bearing a thick spike of minute yellow flowers.

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• noun coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb; southwestern United States to Mexico
  Ximenesia encelioides; Verbesina encelioides; cowpen daisy; golden crown beard; butter daisy.
  

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• noun coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb; southwestern United States to Mexico
  Ximenesia encelioides; Verbesina encelioides; cowpen daisy; golden crown beard; butter daisy.
  

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• noun native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-grey finely dissected foliage
  Mexican tulip poppy; Hunnemania fumariifolia.
  

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• (Bot.), the buttercup.

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• noun a sweet eating apple with yellow skin
  Yellow Delicious.
  

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• noun large eagle of mountainous regions of the northern hemisphere having a golden-brown head and neck
  Aquila chrysaetos.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a large and powerful eagle (Aquila Chrysaëtos) inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. It is so called from the brownish yellow tips of the feathers on the head and neck. A dark variety is called the royal eagle; the young in the second year is the ring-tailed eagle.

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• noun Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers
  yellow paper daisy; strawflower; Helichrysum bracteatum.
  

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• noun globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers; northern California
  Calochortus amabilis; yellow globe lily.
  

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• noun tropical American fern having fronds with light golden undersides
  Pityrogramma calomelanos aureoflava.
  
• noun stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides
  Acrostichum aureum; leather fern.
  

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• noun a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas
  Florida strangler fig; wild fig; Ficus aurea; strangler fig.
  

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• noun in Greek mythology, a fleece of gold owned by the king of Colchis and guarded in a sacred grove by a dragon; recovered by Jason and the Argonauts
  

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• . (a) (Mythol.) The fleece of gold fabled to have been taken from the ram that bore Phryxus through the air to Colchis, and in quest of which Jason undertook the Argonautic expedition. (b) (Her.) An order of knighthood instituted in 1429 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy; called also Toison d'Or.

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• noun a strait in western California that connects the San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean; discovered in 1579 by Sir Francis Drake
  

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• noun a suspension bridge across the Golden Gate
  

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• noun very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads
  Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia; hortensia; double gold.
  

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• noun erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
  mung; Vigna radiata; mung bean; green gram; Phaseolus aureus.
  

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• a bribe; a fee. Slang

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• noun weedy herb of the eastern United States to Texas having golden-yellow flowers; sometimes becomes invasive; sometimes placed in genus Senecio
  Senecio aureus; Packera aurea; golden groundsel.
  

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• (Bot.), a South African shrubby composite plant with golden yellow flowers, the Chrysocoma Coma-aurea.

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• noun small light-colored hamster often kept as a pet
  Mesocricetus auratus; Syrian hamster.
  

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• noun a lucrative severance agreement offered to an employee (usually as an incentive to retire)
  

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• noun North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers
  Hudsonia ericoides; false heather.
  

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• noun perennial herb with showy yellow flowers; the eastern United States
  Actinomeris alternifolia; yellow ironweed; golden honey plant; Verbesina alternifolia; wingstem.
  

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• noun a Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century
  

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• (Hist.), a tribe of Mongolian Tartars who overran and settled in Southern Russia early in the 18th century.

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• noun perennial herb with showy yellow flowers; the eastern United States
  Actinomeris alternifolia; yellow ironweed; golden honey plant; Verbesina alternifolia; wingstem.
  

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• noun Chinese deciduous conifer resembling a larch with golden yellow leaves
  Pseudolarix amabilis.
  

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• a hagiology (the "Aurea Legenda") written by James de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, in the 13th century, translated and printed by Caxton in 1483, and partially paraphrased by Longfellow in a poem thus entitled.

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• noun mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
  golden maidenhair; sweet fern; wall fern; common polypody; adder's fern; Polypodium vulgare.
  

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• tin. Obs.

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• noun Eurasian perennial herb with hairy divided leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in North America
  yellow chamomile; Anthemis tinctoria; dyers' chamomile.
  

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• noun the proportional relation between two divisions of line or two dimension of a plane figure such that short : long :: long : (short + long)
  golden mean.
  
• noun the middle between extremes
  

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• the way of wisdom and safety between extremes; sufficiency without excess; moderation.

  Angels guard him in the golden mean. Pope.

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• noun mole of southern Africa having iridescent guard hairs mixed with the underfur
  

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• (Zoöl), one of several South African Insectivora of the family Chrysochloridæ, resembling moles in form and habits. The fur is tinted with green, purple, and gold.

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• (Chronol.), a number showing the year of the lunar or Metonic cycle. It is reckoned from 1 to 19, and is so called from having formerly been written in the calendar in gold.

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• noun edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
  Chinese black mushroom; Oriental black mushroom; shiitake mushroom; shiitake; Lentinus edodes.
  

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• noun a song that was formerly popular
  oldie.
  

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• noun bright yellow songbird with black wings
  Oriolus oriolus.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Oriole.

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• noun giving top executives lucrative benefits that must be paid by the acquirer if they are discharged after a takeover
  

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• noun western United States bushy herb having yellow pea-like flowers
  Thermopsis macrophylla; yellow pea; false lupine.
  

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• noun brightly colored crested pheasant of mountains of western and central Asia
  Chrysolophus pictus.
  

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• . See under Pheasant.

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• noun a beautiful yellow gilled fungus found from Alaska south along the coast
  Pholiota aurea.
  

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• a kind of apple, of a bright yellow color.

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• noun plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots
  

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• (Zoöl.), one of several species of plovers, of the genus Charadrius, esp. the European (C. apricarius, or pluvialis; called also yellow, black-breasted hill, ∧ whistling, plover. The common American species (C. dominicus) is also called frostbird, and bullhead.

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• noun tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
  Phlebodium aureum; Polypodium aureum; serpent fern; rabbit's-foot fern.
  
• noun mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
  golden maidenhair; sweet fern; wall fern; common polypody; adder's fern; Polypodium vulgare.
  

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• noun evergreen liana widely cultivated for its variegated foliage
  Epipremnum aureum; Scindapsus aureus; ivy arum; pothos.
  

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• noun a kind of lemur
  angwantibo; Arctocebus calabarensis.
  

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• noun weedy herb of the eastern United States to Texas having golden-yellow flowers; sometimes becomes invasive; sometimes placed in genus Senecio
  Senecio aureus; Packera aurea; golden groundsel.
  

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• noun an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum; often cultivated for Easter decorations
  common laburnum; Laburnum anagyroides; golden chain.
  

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• noun an English breed having a long silky golden coat
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Baltimore oriole, in Vocab.

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• (R. C. Ch.), a gold or gilded rose blessed by the pope on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and sent to some church or person in recognition of special services rendered to the Holy See.

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• noun any important rule
  
  • the golden rule of teaching is to be clear
• noun a command based on Jesus' words in the Sermon on the Mount
  
  • Whatsoever ye would that men do unto you, do you even so unto them" (Matthew 7:12)

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• . (a) The rule of doing as we would have others do to us. Cf. Luke vi. 31. (b) The rule of proportion, or rule of three.

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• (Bot.), a composite plant (Inula crithmoides), found on the seashore of Europe.

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• noun any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus Chrysosplenium
  golden saxifrage.
  

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• (Bot.), a low herb with yellow flowers (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium), blossoming in wet places in early spring.

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• noun perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves
  goldenseal; turmeric root; yellow root; Hydrastis Canadensis.
  

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• (Bot.), a perennial ranunculaceous herb (Hydrastis Canadensis), with a thick knotted rootstock and large rounded leaves.

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• noun the proportional relation between two divisions of line or two dimension of a plane figure such that short : long :: long : (short + long)
  golden mean.
  

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• noun shiner of eastern North America having golden glints; sometimes also called `bream'
  Notemigonus crysoleucas.
  

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• noun deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia
  drumstick tree; Cassia fistula; purging cassia; canafistula; canafistola; pudding pipe tree.
  

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• noun any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus Chrysosplenium
  golden saxifrage.
  

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• noun California plant having grasslike leaves and showy orange flowers
  golden star; Bloomeria crocea.
  

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• noun California plant having grasslike leaves and showy orange flowers
  golden star; Bloomeria crocea.
  

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• noun a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes
  CA; Calif.; California.
  

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• noun a pale cane syrup
  treacle.
  

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• noun any of several spiny Mediterranean herbs of the genus Scolymus having yellow flower heads
  

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• noun low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers
  goldthread; Coptis groenlandica; Coptis trifolia groenlandica.
  

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• noun vigorous evergreen climbing plant of South America having glossy leathery foliage and golden yellow flowers
  common allamanda; Allamanda cathartica.
  

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• noun yellow-throated American wood warbler
  yellowbird; Dendroica petechia; yellow warbler.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a common American wood warbler (Dendroica æstiva); called also blue-eyed yellow warbler, garden warbler, and summer yellow bird.

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• (Zoöl.), a bright-colored hymenopterous insect, of the family Chrysididæ. The colors are golden, blue, and green.

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• noun shrubby Australian tree having clusters of fragrant golden yellow flowers; widely cultivated as an ornamental
  Acacia pycnantha.
  

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• . See under Wedding.

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• noun the 50th wedding anniversary
  

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• noun European willow having greyish leaves and yellow-orange twigs used in basketry
  Salix alba vitellina; Salix vitellina.
  

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• noun millet having yellow grains in large drooping spikes
  German millet; Setaria italica stramineofructa.
  

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• noun greyish woolly leafy perennial with branched stems ending in leafless stalks bearing golden-yellow flower heads; dry areas western North America
  Eriophyllum lanatum.
  

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• noun the time of life after retirement from active work
  

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• noun plant of southwestern United States having long open clusters of scarlet flowers with yellow hairs on lower lip
  Penstemon barbatus.
  

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• adjective satellite of brown tinged with gold
  

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• noun European kinglet with a black-bordered yellow crown patch
  Regulus regulus; goldcrest.
  

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Gold"en-eye` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.

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• noun a variety of green lacewing
  goldeneye.
  

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• adjective satellite of green tinged with gold
  

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Gold"en-rod` noun

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1. (Bot.) A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago.

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• adjective satellite of yellow tinged with gold
  

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• noun a variety of golden aster
  

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• noun yellow apple that ripens in late autumn; eaten raw
  

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• noun hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched clusters; found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada to west central and western United States; sometimes placed in genus Chrysopsis
  Chrysopsis villosa; hairy golden aster; Heterotheca villosa.
  

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• noun western American shrubs having white felted foliage and yellow flowers that become red-purple
  Hazardia cana.
  

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• noun subshrub having short leafy stems and numerous small flower heads with nearly round yellow-orange rays; Arizona south to Mexico and east to Kansas
  Zinnia grandiflora.
  

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• noun perennial golden aster of southeastern United States
  Chrysopsis mariana.
  

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• (Chem.), the pentasulphide of antimony, a golden or orange yellow powder.

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• noun hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched clusters; found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada to west central and western United States; sometimes placed in genus Chrysopsis
  Chrysopsis villosa; hairy golden aster; Heterotheca villosa.
  

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• noun a variety of golden aster
  

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• noun dark green erect herb of northwestern United States and southwestern Canada having stiff leaves in dense tufts and yellow flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Haplopappus
  Haplopappus acaulis; Stenotus acaulis.
  

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• a pawnbroker's sign or shop.

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