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PARTHENIUM INTEGRIFOLIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Parthenium integrifolium mean? 

PARTHENIUM INTEGRIFOLIUM (noun)
  The noun PARTHENIUM INTEGRIFOLIUM has 1 sense:

1. stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burnsplay

  Familiarity information: PARTHENIUM INTEGRIFOLIUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PARTHENIUM INTEGRIFOLIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American feverfew; Parthenium integrifolium; prairie dock; wild quinine

Hypernyms ("Parthenium integrifolium" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("Parthenium integrifolium" is a member of...):

genus Parthenium; Parthenium (small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers)


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