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FEABANE MULLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feabane mullet mean? 

FEABANE MULLET (noun)
  The noun FEABANE MULLET has 1 sense:

1. hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleasplay

  Familiarity information: FEABANE MULLET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FEABANE MULLET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

feabane mullet; fleabane; Pulicaria dysenterica

Hypernyms ("feabane mullet" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("feabane mullet" is a member of...):

genus Pulicaria; Pulicaria (genus of temperate Old World herbs: fleabane)


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