billy buttons

noun

especially any of several flowering plants, of the genus Craspedia (but especially Craspedia globosa), native to Australia, having globes of yellow flowers.

First used since 1992
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Meanings

nounbilly buttons (uncountable)
  1. Any of many species of daisy-like plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae native to Australia and New Zealand
    1. uncountableespecially any of several flowering plants, of the genus Craspedia (but especially Craspedia globosa), native to Australia, having globes of yellow flowers.
    2. uncountableAny of several species of the genus Leiocarpa.
    3. uncountableThe plains plover daisy (Leiocarpa brevicompta, formerly Ixiolaena brevicompta), found in floodplains of Queensland and New South Wales; it is poisonous to sheep.
    4. uncountableAny of several species of the genus Pycnosorus, formerly in Craspedia.First known use since 1992
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