Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A handsome yellow-flowered Californian leguminous plant, Lotus glaber. Also called
wild broom . Seebroom .
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Examples
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The tall purple deer-weed, a magnificent scarlet flower of name unknown to me, and another blossom like the laburnum, endlessly varied in its shades of roseate, blue, or the compromised tints, made the hill-sides gorgeous beyond human gardening.
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Can he command the sap to rise or bid the deer-weed spring when there is no rain?
The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts Mary Hunter Austin 1901
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Then, too, if you slip down and leave your horse standing while you steal on a giant _Papilio_ which is sucking the deer-weed in _such_ a sweet spot for a cast, your horse (perhaps he has heard of the French general who said, "Asses and
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