Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants in the composite family, chiefly of the genus Erigeron, having variously colored, many-rayed flower heads, and formerly believed to repel fleas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several composite plants, so called from their supposed power of destroying or driving away fleas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
plants of the genera Inula (especially I. dysenterica) or Erigeron (especially E. acre).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
- noun any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas
- noun hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our fleabane is a troublesome weed at times, but good husbandry has little to dread from it.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879
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Mentha pulegium, also called fleabane, is the most well-known of these.
The Seattle Times 2011
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"The now pan-global weed Canadian fleabane arrived in Europe in the seventeenth century in the stuffing of a bird imported from North America," we're told.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011
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"The now pan-global weed Canadian fleabane arrived in Europe in the seventeenth century in the stuffing of a bird imported from North America," we're told.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011
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Bird's-foot trefoil and bugloss, poppies and cornflowers, fumitory and fleabane – there were about 20 species all in bloom and, aside from the great surge of colour, the highlight for me was the bumblebees, mainly common carder and red-tailed bumblebees, that trafficked through the flowers all day long.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk Mark Cocker 2010
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By now the four of us were stumbling through a rolling pasture of daisy fleabane in full bloom.
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The babies look good now, we have a very thuggish fleabane that is quite the weed, so I am hoping this little one likes it here too.
How To Repot Daylily Seedlings-and other valuable info « Fairegarden 2009
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In the next bed were the medicinal herbs she used in potions for sick folks: squaw weed, hepatica, goldenseal, ginseng for the brain, jewelweed for poison ivy rash, wolf milk for warts, and fleabane and pale hergamot, which Granny would rub on her face and arms to keep off mosquitos and gnats.
Archive 2007-06-01 Linda 2007
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Purple martins go so far as to line their nests with plants like wild carrot and fleabane that contain natural parasite-killers.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Purple martins go so far as to line their nests with plants like wild carrot and fleabane that contain natural parasite-killers.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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