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spring beauty

spring beauty noun: any of various species of flowering plant of the genus Claytonia, primarily native to the Americas and northeastern Asia.

spring beauty: any of various species of flowering plant of the genus Claytonia, primarily native to the Americas...
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Noun

spring beauty (plural spring beauties)

  1. Any of various species of flowering plant of the genus Claytonia, primarily native to the Americas and northeastern Asia.
    • On the lane below, more orangetips nectared on spring beauties and violets.2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, page 123
  2. (obsolete) A small American butterfly, the early hairstreak (Erora laeta), which appears in spring. The hind wings of the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue.

Forms of spring beauty

pluralspring beauties
alternative formspringbeauty

Words formed from spring beauty

  • alpine spring beauty
  • Arctic spring beauty
  • Beringian spring beauty
  • Brandegee's spring beauty
  • Carolina spring beauty
  • eastern spring beauty
  • Great Basin spring beauty
  • gypsum spring beauty
  • heartleaf spring beauty
  • Jonesville spring beauty
  • lanceleaf spring beauty
  • Madrean spring beauty
  • Ogilvie Mountains spring beauty
  • redstem spring beauty
  • Rocky Mountain spring beauty
  • serpentine spring beauty
  • Siberian spring beauty
  • Sierra spring beauty
  • springbeauty
  • tuberous spring beauty
  • Virginia spring beauty
  • western spring beauty

Questions about spring beauty

What does spring beauty mean?
Spring beauty means any of various species of flowering plant of the genus Claytonia, primarily native to the Americas and northeastern Asia.
What part of speech is spring beauty?
Spring beauty is a noun.
What is the plural of spring beauty?
The plural of spring beauty is spring beauties.

Words near spring beauty in the dictionary

  1. Spring Bay
  2. Spring Beach
  3. spring beam
  4. spring beams
  5. spring beauties
  6. spring beauty
  7. spring bed
  8. spring beds
  9. spring beetle
  10. spring beetles
  11. spring bloom

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