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| senecio cruentus
| senecio doublasii
senecio
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun senecio has 1 sense
- senecio(n = noun.plant) genus senecio - enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds; Array is a kind of asterid dicot genus
is a member of aster family, asteraceae, compositae, family asteraceae, family compositae
CIDE DICTIONARY
senecio, n. [L., groundsel, lit., an old man. So called in allusion to the hoary appearance of the pappus.].
A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
senecio, n. any composite plant of the genus Senecio, including many cultivated species as well as groundsel and ragwort.
Etymology
L senecio old man, groundsel, with ref. to the hairy fruits
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