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Fleabane

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Noun

1. feabane mullet, fleabane, pulicaria dysenterica

hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas

2. fleabane

any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas

3. canadian fleabane, conyza canadensis, erigeron canadensis, fleabane, horseweed

common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Fleabane

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noun
1. 
any of several plants of the genus Erigeron, such as E. acer, having purplish tubular flower heads with orange centres: family Asteraceae (composites)
2. 
any of several plants of the related genus Pulicaria, esp the Eurasian P. dysenterica, which has yellow daisy-like flower heads
3.  Canadian fleabane
4. 
any of various other plants reputed to ward off fleas

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Fleabane

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noun
erigeron

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Fleabane

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n.
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.

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