Silversword

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈsɪlvÉ™sɔːd/

Origin

From silver + sword.

Full definition of silversword

Noun

1. Any member of the genus of flowering plants native to Hawaii, with long, narrow leaves sometimes covered in silvery hairs.
• 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 37:It takes the silversword twenty years to screw up the energy for its final floral pyrotechnic.