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Blazing star   /blˈeɪzɪŋ stɑr/   Listen
Blazing star

noun
1.
Biennial of southwestern United States having white stems and toothed leaves that is grown for its large pale yellow flowers that open in early morning.  Synonyms: Mentzelia laevicaulis, Mentzelia livicaulis.
2.
Any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads.  Synonyms: button snakeroot, gay-feather, gayfeather, snakeroot.



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"Blazing star" Quotes from Famous Books



... A blazing star or comet appeared for several months before the plague, as there did the year after, another, a little before the fire; the old women, and the phlegmatic hypochondriac part of the other sex, whom I could almost call the old women too, remarked, especially afterward, tho not till both those judgments ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I • Francis W. Halsey

... Virginia sheep, washed and carded by hand. The quilts had been made by her old mother, and given to her for a marriage portion. The patchwork on each was done in a different design; one was the popular "log-cabin" pattern, another the "laurel-leaf," the third the "blazing star." This quilt Mahailey thought too good for use, and she had told Mrs. Wheeler that she was saving it "to give Mr. ...
— One of Ours • Willa Cather

... he really shares In all my little human cares, This mighty King of kings. If he who guides each blazing star Through realms of boundless space afar Without confusion, sound or jar, Stoops to these ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various

... life upon them, for the cold of interstellar space would leave no living organism. Three dead worlds; Wandl would draw them to her own Sun and then free them, send them, with new orbits, around the distant blazing star. Three new worlds brought home triumphantly by Wandl to join the little family of inhabited planets revolving around this other Sun. Three fair and lovely worlds, warmed back by the other sunlight to be green mansions untenanted, ...
— Wandl the Invader • Raymond King Cummings

... ten, madam, which is a purifying o' the song: would God would serve the world so all the year! we'd find no fault with the tithe-woman, if I were the parson: one in ten, quoth 'a! an we might have a good woman born before every blazing star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery well: a man may draw his heart out ...
— All's Well That Ends Well • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... Making—the conception that life is universally diffused, constantly emitted from all habitable worlds in the form of spores which traverse space for years and ages, the majority being ultimately destroyed by the heat of some blazing star, but some few finding a resting-place on globes which have reached ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt



Words linked to "Blazing star" :   snakeroot, Liatris pycnostachya, dotted gayfeather, button snakeroot, flower, genus Liatris, Mentzelia, wildflower, wild flower, genus Mentzelia, Liatris, Liatris punctata



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