[blazing star] n (15c) 1 archaic: comet
2: any of various plants having conspicuous flower clusters or star-shaped flowers: as a: any of a genus (Liatris) of No. American composite herbs with spikes of rosy-purple rayless flowers--called also button snakeroot b: any of several No. American rough-leaved herbs (genus Mentzelia of the family Losaceae)