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fleabane
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fleabane has 3 senses
- fleabane(n = noun.plant) feabane mullet, pulicaria dysenterica - hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas; Array is a member of genus pulicaria, pulicaria
- fleabane(n = noun.plant) Array - any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas; Array is a kind of wild flower, wildflower
- fleabane(n = noun.plant) canadian fleabane, conyza canadensis, erigeron canadensis, horseweed - common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron; Array is a member of conyza, genus conyza
is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
is a member of erigeron, genus erigeron
has particulars: blue fleabane, erigeron acer, daisy fleabane, erigeron annuus, erigeron aurantiacus, orange daisy, orange fleabane, erigeron divergens, spreading fleabane, beach aster, erigeron glaucous, seaside daisy, erigeron philadelphicus, philadelphia fleabane, erigeron pulchellus, robin's plantain, erigeron speciosus, showy daisy
is a kind of weed
CIDE DICTIONARY
fleabane, n.
One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza , Erigeron , and Pulicaria . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fleabane, n. any of various composite plants of the genus Inula or Pulicaria, supposed to drive away fleas.
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