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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles;
[syn: thimbleweed, Anemone cylindrica]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Thimbleweed \Thim"ble*weed`\, n. (Bot.) Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

thimbleweed n 1: a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles [syn: thimbleweed, Anemone cylindrica]