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Blue star   /blu stɑr/   Listen
Blue star

noun
1.
Subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes.  Synonym: Amsonia tabernaemontana.






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"Blue star" Quotes from Famous Books



... that flourished on the human background. The rising sun of Japan blazed above her trucks, on the wearer's treelike neck; weird serpents and smoke-breathing dragons writhed about his arms from wrist to shoulder, and a red star on the back of one gnarled hand kept watch and watch with a blue star on its opposite member. Barry chuckled audibly as, in a casual flourish, one great arm was half turned, showing the comparative white of the underarm upon which was blazoned a pair of gory hearts in collision, impaled on a harpoon apparently. Around this ...
— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle

... cold cream, feeding them with a doll's spoon, and mourning over them when they died, till she was consoled by one of Demi's best turtles. She made Silas tattoo an anchor on her arm like his, and begged hard to have a blue star on each cheek, but he dared not do it, though she coaxed and scolded till the soft-hearted fellow longed to give in. She rode every animal on the place, from the big horse Andy to the cross pig, from whom she was rescued with difficulty. ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott



Words linked to "Blue star" :   suffrutex, genus Amsonia, Amsonia, subshrub, Amsonia tabernaemontana



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