Definition of Pulicaria

1. Noun. Genus of temperate Old World herbs: fleabane.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulicaria

Puerto Rico
Puffinus
Puffinus puffinus
Puget Sound
Pugh
Pughe
Pugin
Puginesque
Puglia
Pujunan
Puka Inti
Pula
Pulex
Pulex irritans
Puli
Pulicaria
Pulicaria dysenterica
Pulicidae
Pulik
Pulinda
Pulindas
Pulitzer
Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prizes
Pulitzers
Pullman
Pullman car
Pullman porter
Pullmans
Pulmonata

Literary usage of Pulicaria

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

1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"pulicaria first occurs, Dioscorides, 4, 70, as a Roman name for ... all of its names being due to a reputation for exorcising pulicaria in Theodorus ..."

2. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"also my friend Mr. Newbould has occasionally found to be the case in pulicaria dysenterica (L.). Hence there remains no constant char, to distinguish ..."

3. Entomologia Edinensis: Or A Description and History of the Insects Found in by James Wilson, James Duncan (1834)
"... pulicaria, Marsh. Small, black, somewhat glossy : head large, angular, and thickly punctured ..."

4. Report of the Illinois State Entomologist Concerning Operations Under the by Illinois State Entomologist (1905)
"... pulicaria Mels. This minute bronzed species seems quite partial to corn leaves, and is in some years abundant enough in Illinois to check the growth of ..."

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