fleabane

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English

Etymology

From flea +‎ bane.

Pronunciation

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Noun

fleabane (plural fleabanes)

  1. Any of various species of flowering plants, mostly in two subfamilies in Asteroideae, that typically repel insects:
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 120:
      On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.
    1. Astereae
      1. Conyza (butterweeds or horseweed)
      2. Erigeron, especially Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. (blue fleabane)
    2. Inuleae
      1. Inula (yellowheads)
      2. Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. (camphorweeds)
      3. Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. (false fleabane), especially common fleabane (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., formerly Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
  2. In Cichorioideae, Vernonia (ironweeds).

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