THREADLEAF GROUNDSEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does threadleaf groundsel mean? 

• THREADLEAF GROUNDSEL (noun)
  The noun THREADLEAF GROUNDSEL has 1 sense:

1. bluish-green bushy leafy plant covered with close white wool and bearing branched clusters of yellow flower heads; southwestern United States; toxic to range livestock

  Familiarity information: THREADLEAF GROUNDSEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THREADLEAF GROUNDSEL (noun)

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Meaning:

Bluish-green bushy leafy plant covered with close white wool and bearing branched clusters of yellow flower heads; southwestern United States; toxic to range livestock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Senecio doublasii; threadleaf groundsel

Hypernyms ("threadleaf groundsel" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("threadleaf groundsel" is a member of...):

genus Senecio; Senecio (enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds)