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AMERICAN FEVERFEW

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Dictionary entry overview: What does American feverfew mean?

• AMERICAN FEVERFEW (noun)
The noun AMERICAN FEVERFEW has 1 sense:

1. stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns

Familiarity information: AMERICAN FEVERFEW used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AMERICAN FEVERFEW (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American feverfew; Parthenium integrifolium; prairie dock; wild quinine

Hypernyms ("American feverfew" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("American feverfew" is a member of...):

genus Parthenium; Parthenium (small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers)

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