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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 fleasplay

  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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