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Definition of Fleabane
1. Noun. Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas.
Group relationships: Genus Pulicaria, Pulicaria
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
2. Noun. Any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas.
Group relationships: Erigeron, Genus Erigeron
Specialized synonyms: Blue Fleabane, Erigeron Acer, Daisy Fleabane, Erigeron Annuus, Erigeron Aurantiacus, Orange Daisy, Orange Fleabane, Erigeron Divergens, Spreading Fleabane, Beach Aster, Erigeron Glaucous, Seaside Daisy, Erigeron Philadelphicus, Philadelphia Fleabane, Erigeron Pulchellus, Robin's Plantain, Erigeron Speciosus, Showy Daisy
3. 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.
Group relationships: Conyza, Genus Conyza
Generic synonyms: Weed
Definition of Fleabane
1. n. 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.
Definition of Fleabane
1. Noun. Any of various plants of the genera ''Inula'' (especially ''I. dysenterica'') or ''Erigeron'' (especially ''E. acre''). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fleabane
1. a flowering plant [n -S]
Medical Definition of Fleabane
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleabane
Literary usage of Fleabane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Materia Medica: For the Use of Students by John Barclay Biddle (1874)
"Various- leaved and Philadelphia fleabane, popularly known as scabious, * Lartigue's
celebrated gout-pills are, acetic extract of colchicum root, 2 grains, ..."
2. Review of Materia Medica: For the Use of Students by John Barclay Biddle (1852)
"... are officinal: E. Canadense, or Canada fleabane, E. heterophyllum, or
Various-leaved fleabane, and E. Philadelphicum, or Philadelphia fleabane (Nat. ..."
3. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia W. Henshaw (1915)
"Yellow fleabane. 2. E. compositus. Pursh. Fern-leaved fleabane. 3. E. multifidus.
Rydb. Daisy fleabane. 4. E. melanocephalus. Nelson. Black-woolly fleabane. ..."
4. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"THE fleabane. Lin. Sytt. ... This genus contains several British plants which,
under the name of fleabane, are well known to persons residing in the country ..."
5. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"Canada fleabane, Horse-Weed, Butter- Weed. Description.—Heads very numerous,
small, cylindrical, panicled ; rays numerous, inconspicuous, shorter than the ..."
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