Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun compass_plant

2 senses of compass plant

Sense 1
prairie bird's-foot trefoil, compass plant, prairie lotus, prairie trefoil, Lotus americanus -- (North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers)
       => subshrub, suffrutex -- (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Sense 2
compass plant, compass flower -- (any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass)
       => composite, composite plant -- (considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers)