noun
Meaning 1
stinking chamomile (Anthemis cotula).
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Standard Lemma guide
mayweed
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noun
Meaning 2
corn chamomile, field chamomile (Anthemis arvensis).
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noun
Meaning 3
Plants of the genera Matricaria and Tripleurospermum.
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noun
Meaning 4
A mayflower.
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noun
Meaning 5
widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dog fennel, stinking mayweed, stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula
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Broader terms: composite, composite plant
History
Etymology
From Middle English *maythe weed, equivalent to maythe (“mayweed”) + weed; reanalysed as May + weed.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: кучешка лайка (kučeška lajka) — Anthemis cotula
- Catalan: camamilla pudent — Anthemis cotula
- Finnish: haisusauramo — Anthemis cotula
- German: Stinkende Hundskamille — Anthemis cotula
- Middle English: maythe — Anthemis cotula
- Catalan: camamilla borda — Anthemis arvensis
- Finnish: peltosauramo — Anthemis arvensis
- German: Acker-Hundskamille — Anthemis arvensis
- Finnish: saunio — plants of the genera Matricaria and Tripleurospermum
- German: Kamille — plants of the genera Matricaria and Tripleurospermum
- German: Strandkamille — plants of the genera Matricaria and Tripleurospermum
- Norwegian Nynorsk: balderbrå — scentless mayflower, Tripleurospermum inodorum
- Russian: трёхрёберник непаху́чий (trjoxrjóbernik nepaxúčij) — scentless mayflower, Tripleurospermum inodorum
- Russian: рома́шка непаху́чая (romáška nepaxúčaja) — scentless mayflower, Tripleurospermum inodorum
- Swedish: baldersbrå — scentless mayflower, Tripleurospermum inodorum