FLEABANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fleabane mean? 

• FLEABANE (noun)
  The noun FLEABANE has 3 senses:

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

2. any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas

3. common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron

  Familiarity information: FLEABANE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLEABANE (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 ("fleabane" 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 ("fleabane" is a member of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fleabane" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fleabane"):

blue fleabane; Erigeron acer (widespread weed with pale purple-blue flowers)

daisy fleabane; Erigeron annuus (widely naturalized white-flowered North American herb)

Erigeron aurantiacus; orange daisy; orange fleabane (mat-forming herb of Turkestan with nearly double orange-yellow flowers)

Erigeron divergens; spreading fleabane (well-branched plant with hairy leaves and stems each with a solitary flower head with narrow white or pink or lavender rays; western North America)

beach aster; Erigeron glaucous; seaside daisy (slightly succulent perennial with basal leaves and hairy sticky stems each bearing a solitary flower head with narrow pink or lavender rays; coastal bluffs Oregon to southern California)

Erigeron philadelphicus; Philadelphia fleabane (especially pretty plant having a delicate fringe of threadlike rays around flower heads having very slender white or pink rays; United States and Canada)

Erigeron pulchellus; robin's plantain (common perennial of eastern North America having flowers with usually violet-purple rays)

Erigeron speciosus; showy daisy (plant having branching leafy stems each branch with an especially showy solitary flower head with many narrow pink or lavender or white rays; northwestern United States mountains)

Holonyms ("fleabane" is a member of...):

Erigeron; genus Erigeron (cosmopolitan genus of usually perennial herbs with flowers that resemble asters; leaves occasionally (especially formerly) used medicinally)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Canadian fleabane; Conyza canadensis; Erigeron canadensis; fleabane; horseweed

Hypernyms ("fleabane" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("fleabane" is a member of...):

Conyza; genus Conyza (common American weed or wildflower)