noun
small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated
• Syn: ↑Lasthenia chrysostoma
• Hypernyms: ↑wildflower, ↑wild flower
• Member Holonyms: ↑Lasthenia, ↑genus Lasthenia
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/gohld"feeldz'/, n., pl. goldfields.
any of several Californian, composite herbs of the genus Lasthenia, having yellow flowers.
[1910-15, Amer.; GOLD + FIELD + -S3]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.