n.
1.rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems
2.late-blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters
3.African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
Idiom of the Day
cut (someone) to the quick
to hurt someone's feelings very badly
The woman cut her friend to the quick when she criticized her new clothes.