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PULICARIA DYSENTERICA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pulicaria dysenterica mean?
• PULICARIA DYSENTERICA (noun)
The noun PULICARIA DYSENTERICA has 1 sense:
1. hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas
Familiarity information: PULICARIA DYSENTERICA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PULICARIA DYSENTERICA (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 ("Pulicaria dysenterica" 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 ("Pulicaria dysenterica" is a member of...):
genus Pulicaria; Pulicaria (genus of temperate Old World herbs: fleabane)
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