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Small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers
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parthenium
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n. (context botany English) Any of the genus (taxlink Parthenium genus noshow=1) of flowering plants in the aster family.
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Parthenium is a genus of North American shrubs in the sunflower tribe within the daisy family . The name Parthenium is derived from either the Greek word παρθένος ( parthenos ), meaning "virgin," or παρθένιον ( parthenion ), an ancient name for a plant. ...
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Another Camphor called N'gai, obtained from the Blumea Balcamferi (Compositae), differs chemically from the Borneo species, being levogyrate, and is converted by boiling nitric acid, to a substance considered identical with stearoptene of Chrysanthemum parthenium.