silversword
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɪlvəsɔːd/
Noun
silversword (plural silverswords)
- Any member of the genus Argyroxiphium of flowering plants native to Hawaii, with long, narrow leaves sometimes covered in silvery hairs.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 37:
- It takes the silversword twenty years to screw up the energy for its final floral pyrotechnic.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 37:
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