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Definition of Filaree

1. Noun. European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage.

Definition of Filaree

1. a European weed [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Filaree

Literary usage of Filaree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Experiments with Plants by Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout (1917)
"The filaree, Foxtail and Wild Oats have seeds of this kind. If you can obtain these, place them on the surface of moist soil (a rough, uneven surface is ..."

2. California Plants in Their Homes: A Botanical Reader for Children by Alice Merritt Davidson (1898)
"The Geranium family, which includes the filaree as well as the cultivated ... The filaree, like the bur-clover, is believed to have been brought to ..."

3. Agriculture for Schools of the Pacific Slope by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout (1910)
"In the spring the musky filaree grows faster than the other and is easily known by its coarse, rank look. It has pale stems and leaf stalks, | while in the ..."

4. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"By corruption it has become "filaree." This plant is found in abundance everywhere, and is one of our most valuable forage-plants. It varies greatly in size ..."

5. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"WHITE-STEM filaree. MUSK CLOVER. Hirsute with scattered spreading hairs, ... RED-STEM filaree. Habit of the preceding; leaflets subsessile, nearly oblong, ..."

6. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"Two species, introduced from the Mediterranean region— E. moschatum, known as musk filaree or musk clover, and E. Botrys—are grown in the Pacific coast ..."

7. The Future of Arid Grasslands: Identifying Issues, Seeking Solutions edited by Barbara Tellman (1999)
"In March 1844, Captain John Fremont found filaree as he came down from the ... By April 12 he had descended into the valley and again reported filaree ..."

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