goldenrod
pronunciation
How to pronounce goldenrod in British English:
UK ['gəʊldənrɒd]
How to pronounce goldenrod in American English:
US ['goʊldənˌrɒd]
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- Noun:
- any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago
Word Origin
- goldenrod (n.)
- 1560s, from golden + rod (n.). So called for its yellow heads.
Example
- 1. Your mucus was " pale goldenrod . "
- 2. Goldenrod paper : opaque orange paper on which film negative is assembled for plate-making .
- 3. Those of us lucky enough to get in strolled through hip-high goldenrod and lingered to look at graffiti , as people outside the chain-link fence gazed in at us wistfully .
- 4. Festival-goers decorate it with buttercups , red and white clover , wild geranium , goldenrod and cow parsley .
- 5. Beyond dusty roads lined with goldenrod , I found the turn-off to the valley of my childhood .