golden club

noun

1. an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of golden club¹

1830–40; Americanism

Example Sentences

He stood in the doorway and pounded the ground with his golden club until the whole castle shook.

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First, coming down the street will be seen about thirty infantry bearing each a golden club, and shouting: "Get out; get out!"

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Among them were blossoms of the paler golden-club, which looked like the tongue of a calla lily.

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