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salsify
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Goat's beard \Goat's beard\, goatsbeard \goatsbeard\n. (Bot.), A weedy European annual with yellow flowers, of the genus Tragopogon; -- so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant; it is naturalized in US. Syn: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, {Tragopogon pratensis}. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Salsify \Sal"si*fy\ (?; 277), n. [F. salsifis.] (Bot.) See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster. [1913 Webster]
