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Widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs
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mayweed
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WordNet
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n. widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs [syn: dog fennel , stinking mayweed , stinking chamomile , Anthemis cotula ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Fennel \Fen"nel\ (f[e^]n"n[e^]l), n. [AS. fenol, finol, from L. feniculum, faeniculum, dim. of fenum, faenum, hay: cf. F. fenouil. Cf. Fenugreek . Finochio .] (Bot.) A perennial plant of the genus F[ae]niculum ( F[ae]niculum vulgare ), having very finely ...
Wikipedia
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Mayweed is a common name for two different species of flowering plants and also a name commonly used for several genera of the tribe Anthemideae whose species are currently in a flux of renaming: Species with a common name of Mayweed : Anthemis cotula Anthemis ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A mayflower.
Usage examples of mayweed.
Stinking Chamomile or Stinking Mayweed (Anthemis cotula), an annual, common in waste places, resembles the true Chamomile, having large solitary flowers on erect stems, with conical, solid receptacles, but the white florets have no membraneous scales at their base.
The Scentless Mayweed owes its generic name to its reputed medicinal properties, which in a lesser degree resemble those of Anthemis nobilis.