Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant with bright stellate flowers.
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Examples
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Emmerich said in her sleep: ` Rue [which she had used before] and star-flower sprinkled with holy water should be pressed, and the juice given to the child, surely that could do no harm?
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954
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She woke up and said at once: ` That is not a relic, it is the star-flower. '
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954
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Across the threshold swept a young lady, richly robed in trailing silk and velvet and fur; with a face fair as a star-flower, haughty as the face of any duchess; with amber eyes that gazed upon them contemptuously, masterfully, fearlessly; with wave upon wave of golden brown hair, clustering about the temples and snowy neck; and with scarlet lips half parted in a scornful smile.
Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Lawrence L. Lynch
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And Love's gold-hearted rose and Hope's star-flower
The Path of Dreams Poems Leigh Gordon Giltner
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New waves of warmth and light kept coming, and now they brought with them seeds from the star-flower.
Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls Elva S. Smith
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To be sure, the star-flower lost much of its heavenly beauty, but it is still always lovely to look at, with its golden-yellow disk, and its silvery white crown of rays.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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To premise with the daisy historically: Among the Romans it was called _Bellis_, or "pretty one;" in modern Greece, it is star-flower.
The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Various
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There were brewed the reeking ingredients that fertilize the fungus of Crime; there was made to bloom the bright star-flower of Innocence; there was forged the anchor of
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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New waves of warmth and light kept coming, and now they brought with them seeds from the star-flower.
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(She gathers a star-flower and plucks off the leaves one after another.)
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