golden club

American  

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.

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Etymology

Origin of golden club

1830–40;

Example Sentences

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golden club

The marshes are all gay with it: it is the golden club.

From Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California by Caroline C. Leighton

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

From Modern Persia by Mooshie G. Daniel

But the golden club, which looks something like a calla stripped of her lovely white robe, has not lacked protection for its little buds from the cold spring winds while any was needed.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan

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

From Czechoslovak Fairy Tales by Parker Fillmore

In this case the eyes of sipping butterflies occasionally get their decoration of a tiny golden club, but more frequently their tongues.

From My Studio Neighbors by William Hamilton Gibson