Usually means: Sunflower family, compass-oriented leaf arrangement.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. compass plant: Merriam-Webster
  2. compass plant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. compass plant: Collins English Dictionary
  4. compass plant: Vocabulary.com
  5. compass-plant, compass plant: Wordnik
  6. compass plant: Wiktionary
  7. compass plant: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Compass plant, compass plant: Dictionary.com
  9. compass plant: Rhymezone
  10. compass plant: FreeDictionary.org
  11. compass plant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. compass plant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compass plant: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (compass plant)

noun:  Any of several plants, the leaves of which become oriented to the morning sun:
noun:  Lactuca serriola, native to Europe, widely introduced to temperate regions.
noun:  Silphium laciniatum, native to eastern North America.
noun:  Wyethia angustifolia, California compass plant, native to western North America.

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