TUSSILAGO FARFARA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tussilago farfara mean? 

• TUSSILAGO FARFARA (noun)
  The noun TUSSILAGO FARFARA has 1 sense:

1. perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly

  Familiarity information: TUSSILAGO FARFARA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUSSILAGO FARFARA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

coltsfoot; Tussilago farfara

Hypernyms ("Tussilago farfara" 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 ("Tussilago farfara" is a member of...):

genus Tussilago; Tussilago (genus of low creeping yellow-flowered perennial herbs of north temperate regions: coltsfoots; in some classifications includes species often placed in other genera especially Homogyne and Petasites)