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Formerly believed to repel fleas
Answer for the clue "Formerly believed to repel fleas ", 8 letters:
fleabane
Alternative clues for the word fleabane
- Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas
- Widely naturalized throughout temperate regions
- Bean leaf salad plant cultivated for pest control
- Common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers
- Plant that reputedly repels insects
- Plant said to repel bugs
Word definitions for fleabane in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also flea-bane , 1540s, from flea (n.) + bane (n.). Old English had fleawyrt , used of various plants supposed to destroy fleas.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various species of flowering plants, mostly in two subfamily in Asteroideae, that typically repel insects: 2 # Astereae 3 ## ''Conyza'' (butterweeds or horseweed) 4 ## ''Erigeron'', especially (taxlink Erigeron acre species noshow=1) 5 # Inuleae ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fleabane \Flea"bane`\, n. (Bot.) One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza , Erigeron , and Pulicaria .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas [syn: feabane mullet , Pulicaria dysenterica ] any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to ...
Usage examples of fleabane.
However, his keen ears caught the drift of what Hisk and Fleabane were shouting.
They rested, waiting until Fleabane and Findo, who were the advance scouts, returned.
Then she found a patch of fleabane and pulled up several plants to throw on the fire, as an additional deterrent along with ordinary smoke to help keep a small area close to the fire relatively insect free.
Silly things, like hanging the fleabane up to dry, though that is still months away.
Others are scattered on the mounds and in the meads adjoining, where may be collected some heath still in bloom, prunella, hypericum, white yarrow, some heads of red clover, some beautiful buttercups, three bits of blue veronica, wild chamomile, tall yellowwood, pink centaury, succory, dock cress, daisies, fleabane, knapweed, and delicate blue harebells.
Grey lichen grew on the cabin logs and dried stalks of horseweed and pigweed and fleabane rose from the snow in the doorways.
What do you think of the value of the fleabane, and the daisies, and the yellow five-finger in that field?
For the sake of distinction, it is commonly known as the Blue Fleabane, its flowerheads having a yellow centre, and being surrounded by purplish rays.
Even the common names of wildflowers - stitchwort, lady's bedstraw, blue fleabane, feverfew -have an inescapable enchantment about them.
Along its further side the riparian plants grew thickly, so that it was separated from the river by a kind of hedge of purple loosestrife, great willow herb, fleabane, figwort and hemp agrimony, here and there already in bloom.
Our old authors call it 'Middle Fleabane' - Ploughman's Spikenard being the Great Fleabane.