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PHILADELPHIA FLEABANE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Philadelphia fleabane mean?
• PHILADELPHIA FLEABANE (noun)
The noun PHILADELPHIA FLEABANE has 1 sense:
1. especially pretty plant having a delicate fringe of threadlike rays around flower heads having very slender white or pink rays; United States and Canada
Familiarity information: PHILADELPHIA FLEABANE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PHILADELPHIA FLEABANE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Especially pretty plant having a delicate fringe of threadlike rays around flower heads having very slender white or pink rays; United States and Canada
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Erigeron philadelphicus; Philadelphia fleabane
Hypernyms ("Philadelphia fleabane" is a kind of...):
fleabane (any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas)
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