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rudbeckia

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun rudbeckia has 1 sense

rudbeckia(n = noun.plant) genus rudbeckia - North American perennial herbs with showy cone-shaped flower heads; Array

is a kind of asterid dicot genus

is a member of aster family, asteraceae, compositae, family asteraceae, family compositae

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CIDE DICTIONARY

rudbeckia, n. [NL. So named after Olaf Rudebeck, a Swedish botanist.].

A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species, exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

rudbeckia, n. a composite garden plant of the genus Rudbeckia, native to N. America.

Etymology

mod.L f. O. Rudbeck, Sw. botanist d. 1740

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