prairie golden aster
- noun
- US
:
aster dorado de pradera
- In late summer, the fields were sprinkled with prairie golden aster in full bloom.
Examples
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The prairie golden aster thrives in dry, sandy soils across the Midwest.
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Botanists surveyed the area and identified several patches of prairie golden aster.
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The prairie golden aster blooms in late summer.
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Many prairie golden asters can be found in Montana.
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In late summer, the fields were sprinkled with prairie golden aster in full bloom.
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Botanists surveyed the area and identified several patches of prairie golden aster.
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The prairie golden aster thrives in dry, sandy soils across the Midwest.
Synonyms
A plant that comes back every year with yellow flower heads and fine hairs, growing in dry places
A hairy plant that lives for many years and has bright yellow flower heads in dry areas of North America
A plant that lives for several years with hairy stems and yellow flowers in dry areas of North America
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'prairie' (grassland) + 'golden' (gold-coloured) + 'aster' (a late-season flower) yields the image of an aster with golden flowers found in prairies. This straightforward adjective–noun modification follows regular English patterns (and similar constructions in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Prairie golden aster is named for how and where it grows: prairie points to the wide dry grasslands, golden describes its bright yellow flowers, and aster is a word meaning 'star' because the flower looks like a small star. So the name tells you it is a yellow, daisy-like plant that grows on the prairie.
