genus gerardia | (n) genus of annual or perennial herbs with showy pink or purple or yellow flowers; plants often assigned to genera Aureolaria or Agalinis |
gerardia | (n) any plant of the genus Gerardia |
bluestem | (n) tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States, Syn. blue stem, Andropogon furcatus, Andropogon gerardii |
depardieu | (n) French film actor (born in 1948), Syn. Gerard Depardieu |
false foxglove | (n) sparsely branched North American perennial with terminal racemes of bright yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia, Syn. Gerardia virginica, Aureolaria virginica |
false foxglove | (n) multi-stemmed North American annual having solitary axillary dark golden-yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia, Syn. Aureolaria pedicularia, Gerardia pedicularia |
gibson | (n) Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956), Syn. Mel Gibson, Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson |
hopkins | (n) English poet (1844-1889), Syn. Gerard Manley Hopkins |
kuiper | (n) United States astronomer (born in the Netherlands) who studied the solar system and suggested in 1951 that there is a belt of comet-like debris at the edge of the solar system (1905-1973), Syn. Gerard Peter Kuiper, Gerard Kuiper |
mercator | (n) Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594), Syn. Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer |