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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas;
[syn: fleabane, feabane mullet, Pulicaria dysenterica]

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

3. common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron;
[syn: horseweed, Canadian fleabane, fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fleabane \Flea"bane`\, n. (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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fleabane n 1: hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas [syn: fleabane, feabane mullet, Pulicaria dysenterica] 2: any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas 3: common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron [syn: horseweed, Canadian fleabane, fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis]