Sleep-at-noon

Sleep-at-noon
Sleep-at-noon Sleep"-at-noon", n. (Bot.) A plant ({Tragopogon pratensis}) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. --Dr. Prior. [1913 Webster]

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