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noun
Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
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noun
Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
in tribe Astereae
Conyza spp. (butterweeds or horseweed)
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noun
Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
in tribe Astereae
Erigeron spp., especially Erigeron acre (blue fleabane)
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noun
Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
in tribe Inuleae
Inula spp. (yellowheads)
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noun
Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
in tribe Inuleae
Pluchea spp. (camphorweeds)
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noun
Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
in tribe Inuleae
Pulicaria spp. (false fleabane), especially common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica subsp. dysenterica, formerly Inula dysenterica)
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noun
Any of various species of flowering plants in certain genera in family Asteraceae, that typically repel insects:
Also, in subfamily Cichorioideae, Vernonia spp. (ironweeds).
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noun
common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: horseweed, Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis
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Broader terms: weed
noun
any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wildflower, wild flower
Narrower terms: blue fleabane, Erigeron acer, daisy fleabane, Erigeron annuus, orange daisy, orange fleabane, Erigeron aurantiacus, spreading fleabane, Erigeron divergens, seaside daisy, beach aster, Erigeron glaucous, Philadelphia fleabane, Erigeron philadelphicus, robin's plantain, Erigeron pulchellus, showy daisy, Erigeron speciosus
noun
hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: feabane mullet, Pulicaria dysenterica
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
History
From flea + bane.
Across languages
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