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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPASS PLANT

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Compass plant is a noun.
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WHAT DOES COMPASS PLANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

compass plant

Silphium laciniatum

Silphium laciniatum is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae, known commonly as compass plant or compassplant. It is native to North America, where it occurs in Ontario in Canada and the eastern and central United States as far west as New Mexico. Other common names include prairie compass plant, pilotweed, polarplant, gum weed, cut-leaf silphium, and turpentine plant. It is a rosinweed of genus Silphium.

Definition of compass plant in the English dictionary

The definition of compass plant in the dictionary is Also called: rosinweed. a tall plant, Silphium laciniatum, of central North America, that has yellow flowers and lower leaves that tend to align themselves at right angles to the strongest light, esp in a north-south plane: family Asteraceae. Other definition of compass plant is any of several similar plants.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPASS PLANT

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WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPASS PLANT

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Synonyms and antonyms of compass plant in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «compass plant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPASS PLANT

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The translations of compass plant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «compass plant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

指南针厂
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

planta brújula
570 millions of speakers

English

compass plant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कम्पास संयंत्र
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

مصنع البوصلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

компас завод
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bússola planta
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কম্পাস উদ্ভিদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

usine de boussole
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Loji kompas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kompass Pflanze
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

コンパスプラント
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

나침반 공장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tanduran kompas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhà máy la bàn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

திசைகாட்டி ஆலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

होकायंत्र वनस्पती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Pusula fabrikası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

impianto di bussola
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kompas roślin
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

компас завод
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

compas de plante
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φυτό πυξίδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kompas plant
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kompass växt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kompass anlegg
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPASS PLANT»

The term «compass plant» is used very little and occupies the 170.401 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about compass plant

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPASS PLANT»

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Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants
COMPASS PLANT (Silphium laciniatum) Family : Composite (Compositae) Common Names: Wild Lettuce, Prickly Lettuce, Opium Lettuce, Wild Opium. Characteristics: This wild medicinal gets its name, as many Boy Scouts will tell you, by the ...
Bradford Angier, 1978
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Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota - 2nd Edition
Height 3 to 12 feet Description There is nothing small about compass plant. It has lemonyellow, sunflower-like flowers up to 5 inches across at the ends of branched, hairy, sticky stems July to September. The 12-to 18-inch, cut- leafblades orient ...
‎2011
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Designer Plant Combinations: 105 Stunning Gardens Using Six ...
CITY TOWERS AND PRAIRIE POWER Rising up against the Chicago skyline, the bold yellow spires of compass plant integrate this prairie planting into a city setting in this wild, inspired, Piet Oudolf design at Chicago's Lurie Garden.
Scott Calhoun, 2012
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Prairie Plants
The Amazing Compass Plant The tall compass plant helped pioneers find their way on the prairie. Large leaves grow on either side of its long stem. The leaves on one side of the compass plant point north. The leaves on the other side point ...
Terri Sievert, 2005
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A Wiccan Formulary and Herbal
Generally speaking, Silphium laciniatum is listed as having the common names Compass Plant, Compass Weed, Polar Plant, and Rosin Weed, but it is also sometimes known as Bumweed and Compass Point. However, Rosin Weed is ...
A. J. Drew, 2004
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The Prairie - a Photographic Introduction to the Midwest Prairie
Compass Plant: November mornings begin frosty; growing comfortably warm by noon on brisk, fair- weather autumn days. The morning that this image was created found me looking for interesting textures and shapes in the seemingly drab ...
Pamela Breitberg, 2011
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The Weeds of New South Wales
Prickly Lettuce or Compass Plant (Lactuca Scariola L.). (Composite: Daisy Family .) Botanical Name. — Lactuca, Latin for lettuce; Scariola, Latin for wild salad. Botanical Description. — Hather scabrous below, leaves suberect, radical ...
Joseph Henry Maiden, 1920
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Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales
Its name of "Compass Plant" is so interesting that it will be specially referred to in the- next paragraph. The Compass Plant. — In Europe the leaves of this plant markedly twist themselves in the sun, so that their margins become directed ...
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Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales
"Prickly Lettuce" or "Compass Plant" {Lactuca Scariola, Linn.). J. H. MAIDEN, Government Botanist and Director of the Botanio Gardens, Sydney. Botanical name. — Lactuca, Latin for lettuce; Scariola, Latin for wild salad. Botanical description.
New South Wales. Dept. of Agriculture, 1906
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Tallgrass Prairie Restoration in the Midwestern and Eastern ...
Silphium laciniatum v. laciniatum, compass plant (height, 1–3.5 m) acquires its common name for the alignment of the leaves facing east and west; that is, the leaf edges point north and south. This alignment becomes more random when the ...
Harold Gardner, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPASS PLANT»

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Easy prairie plants offer variety at home
Compass plant: This yellow-flowered selection can reach 10 feet tall with a 6-foot taproot. The coarse, sculptural leaves have been observed to ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
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DNR Report: Water levels normalizing, great conditions for 4th of …
Native wildflowers like the compass plant, purple prairie clover, rattlesnake master and milkweed are blooming. Monarch butterflies lay their ... «Appleton Post Crescent, Jul 15»
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Jerry Davis: Berries ripening but birds find them first
The most impressive compass plant, with its 6 to 8-foot stalk, is easy to spot above the tall grasses. Its yellow flower heads will be late summer ... «Madison.com, Jun 15»
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DNR Report: Water levels remain high
... wild strawberries are popping up in Door County woods White wild indigo, pale purple coneflower, spiderwort, compass plant and coreopsis ... «Appleton Post Crescent, Jun 15»
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Letter from Birdland: New neighbors taking toll on flock
I set it in my path next to some butterfly milkweed and a compass plant I also purchased. I was happy to find the stand of common milkweed we ... «Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette, May 15»
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IN THE GARDEN: Eastern Nebraska wildflower backyard choices
From corner to corner, Nebraska is a great place to explore wildflowers. Eastern Nebraska tallgrass prairie has giants, such as compass plant ... «Lincoln Journal Star, May 15»
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Hocking Hills is a treasure, and other parks shine, too
Lawrence County: Compass Plant Prairie Nature Preserve: http://naturepreserves.ohiodnr.gov/compassplantprairie. Crown City Wildlife Area: ... «Dayton Daily News, May 15»
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Grinnell Farmers Market kicks off May 14
... baked goods; Compass Plant CSA by Ann Brau and Lisle Dunham, baked goods, produce, flowers and plants; Jim Dolezal, fresh produce; ... «Newton Daily News, May 15»
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Native, organic plant sales blossom in May across Lake County
More than 100 native plants including ferns, flowers, grasses, shrubs and vines will be sold, such as the sun-loving compass plant, native oaks ... «Chicago Tribune, Apr 15»
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Friends of Wilderness Park sponsors native plant sale
... shell-leaf penstemon, purple poppy mallow, jack-in-the-pulpit, compass plant, prairie petunia, Virginia mountain mint and big bluestem grass. «Lincoln Journal Star, Mar 15»

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