Definitions for fleabane



Overview of noun fleabane

The noun fleabane has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. fleabane, feabane mullet, Pulicaria dysenterica

(hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas)

2. fleabane

(any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas)

3. horseweed, Canadian fleabane, fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis

(common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron)

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