blazing star
noun
1
archaic
: comet
2
: any of various plants having conspicuous flower clusters or star-shaped flowers: such as
a
: any of a genus (Liatris) of North American composite herbs with spikes of rosy-purple rayless flowers
called also button snakeroot
b
: any of several North American rough-leaved herbs (genus Mentzelia of the family Losaceae)
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