'Black-eyed Susan' definitions:
Definition of 'black-eyed Susan'
(from WordNet)
noun
Tropical African climbing plant having yellow flowers with a dark purple center [syn: black-eyed Susan, black-eyed Susan vine, Thunbergia alata]
noun
Annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America [syn: flower-of-an-hour, flowers-of-an-hour, bladder ketmia, black-eyed Susan, Hibiscus trionum]
noun
The state flower of Maryland; of central and southeastern United States; having daisylike flowers with dark centers and yellow to orange rays [syn: black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta, Rudbeckia serotina]
Definition of 'Black-eyed Susan'
From: GCIDE
- Black-eyed Susan \Black"-eyed` Su"san\ (Bot.) (a) The coneflower, or yellow daisy (Rudbeckia hirta). (b) The bladder ketmie. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'black-eyed Susan'
From: GCIDE
- Rudbeckia \Rud*beck"i*a\, n. [NL. So named after Olaf Rudebeck, a Swedish botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species, exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]