black-eyed Susan
noun
any of a number of composite plants having daisylike flowers with a dark center disk and usually yellow ray flowers, especially Rudbeckia hirta: the state flower of Maryland.
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Origin of black-eyed Susan
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
Words nearby black-eyed Susan
blackened, Black English, Blackett, black eye, black-eyed pea, black-eyed Susan, blackface, blackfellow, blackfellow's bread, Black Ferns, black-figure
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British Dictionary definitions for black-eyed Susan
black-eyed Susan
noun
any of several North American plants of the genus Rudbeckia, esp R. hirta, having flower heads of orange-yellow rays and brown-black centres: family Asteraceae (composites)
a climbing plant, Thunbergia alata, native to tropical Africa but widely naturalized elsewhere, having yellow flowers with purple centres, grown as a greenhouse annual
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