WordNet
n. weedy plant of southeastern United States having divided leaves and long clusters of greenish flowers [syn: Eupatorium capillifolium]
widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs [syn: mayweed, stinking mayweed, stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula]
Wikipedia
Dog fennel, dog-fennel, or dogfennel is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
- Anthemis cotula, an annual plant up to about 60 cm tall, native to Europe and North Africa but naturalized in other parts of the world as well
- Chamaemelum
- Eupatorium capillifolium, a perennial plant up to about 2 m tall, native to eastern North America
Usage examples of "dog fennel".
She broke a dead dog fennel and used its feathery brown length like a whip to snap the heads off weeds that poked through the leaves on the ground.
He had to ride on the weeds and dirt at the edge to do it, and he knocked down a few dog fennel and a pokeberry plant in the process, but he made it.
Then there was a type whose real name she knew: dog fennel, standing head-high on her, just beginning to flower.