silversword

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Argyroxiphium

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From silver +‎ sword.

silversword (plural silverswords)

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