Fleabane

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various plants of the genus Erigeron, having variously colored, many-rayed, daisylike flower heads.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of various plants of the genera Inula (especially I. dysenterica) or Erigeron (especially E. acre).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of several composite plants, so called from their supposed power of destroying or driving away fleas.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron
  • n. any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas
  • n. hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas
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