blazing star

noun

1. any of certain plants with showy flower clusters, as Chamaelirium luteum, of the lily family, or the composite plant Liatris spicata.

2. a plant, Mentzelia laevicaulis, of the western U.S., having large, light-yellow flowers with many conspicuous stamens.

blazing star

noun

1. a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum , with a long spike of small white flowers

2. any plant of the North American genus Liatris , having clusters of small red or purple flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)

Example Sentences

They range from ‘super-Earths’ with bizarre geologies and ‘mini-Neptunes’ with gassy atmospheres to ‘hot Jupiters,’ huge planets whirling close to their blazing stars.

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She's also a specific force jammed into an ill-suited system for her wattage, a blazing star obscuring the familiar correspondents and contributors.

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Van Gogh’s 1888 “Starry Night Over the Rhone” combines the play of gaslight reflected in water and a sky full of blazing stars to suggest a transfigured sense of nocturnal solitude and ecstasy.

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Pike, the British actress best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in “Gone Girl,” is the blazing star of “I Care a Lot,” written and directed by J. Blakeson, arriving on Friday on Netflix.

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Ward also assists with measuring the threatened Heller’s blazing star, a type of aster that grow on rocky balds and mountain tops.

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