deer's-ear

noun

plural deer's-ear or deer's-ears

: any of several tall-growing biennial or short-lived perennial herbs (as American columbo) that constitute a genus Frasera of the family Gentianaceae and are widely distributed in North America especially in warm dry upland areas of the Pacific states compare deer's-tongue

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