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sweet shaggytuft

sweet shaggytuft noun: a perennial plant with small lavender-colored flowers, native to the Americas, of species Stenandrium dulce.

sweet shaggytuft: a perennial plant with small lavender-colored flowers, native to the Americas, of species...
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Noun

sweet shaggytuft (uncountable)

  1. A perennial plant with small lavender-colored flowers, native to the Americas, of species Stenandrium dulce.
    • Stenandrium amoenum, S. barbatum (early shaggytuft), and S. dulce (sweet shaggytuft) are dwarf tufted plants native to the Americas; […]2023 April 5, Bijan Dehgan, Garden Plants Taxonomy: Volume 2: Angiosperms (Eudicots), Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 1059
    Synonyms:
    pineland pinklet

Synonyms of sweet shaggytuft

  • pineland pinklet

Origin of sweet shaggytuft

Calque of taxonomic name Stenandrium dulce.

Questions about sweet shaggytuft

What does sweet shaggytuft mean?
Sweet shaggytuft means a perennial plant with small lavender-colored flowers, native to the Americas, of species Stenandrium dulce.
What part of speech is sweet shaggytuft?
Sweet shaggytuft is a noun.

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