Jupiter's beard Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers
    silver-bush; Anthyllis barba-jovis; silverbush.

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Definitions
  1. . (Bot.) (a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red blossoms (Centranthus ruber) . (b) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove . Prior. (c) the cloverlike Anthyllis Barba-Jovis.

Webster 1913