Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dogfennel.
Examples
-
Other dune plants include bayberry, dogfennel, bitter panic grass, broomsedge, wax myrtle and Spanish bayonet (Yucca).
Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Georgia 2008
-
Not seeing a weed close enough to snap without stepping aside, she broke the dogfennel in half, then again, until the pieces were no longer than her hand, and tossed them to the ground.
The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993
-
She broke a dead dogfennel and used its feathery brown length like a whip to snap the heads off weeds that poked through the leaves on the ground.
The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993
-
Before putting the dry brittle branches in the ground, with a small, light hoe I went all over and through the earth about the Sweet Peas, uprooting chickweed and clover, pigweed and dogfennel, till there was not a weed to be seen near them.
An Island Garden 1894
-
At New Carlisle, a sleepy little village where the dogfennel was wonderfully advanced for June, Zene took the gray from the wagon and hitched him to the carriage, substituting Old Hickory.
Old Caravan Days Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874
-
Cultivator, 255; leaves suggested to be used in, 345; dogfennel and gum for, 346.
-
-- We have seen a specimen of kip leather said to be tanned by Isaac Bierfield, of Newberry, S. C., in twenty days, with his dogfennel preparation.
-
The reputed power of the dogfennel and other plants for the rapid tanning of leather attracted my attention to the subject.
-
Strange to say, the dogfennel (Eupatorium fæniculaceum?) occupied a very inferior position as a tanniniferous plant.
-
Russian thistle, dogfennel and wild buckwheat in wheat, barley and triticale, as well as in post-harvest burndown, preplant burndown and fallow applications.
unknown title 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.