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Definition of Composite plant
1. Noun. Considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers.
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Specialized synonyms: Compass Flower, Compass Plant, Everlasting, Everlasting Flower, Anthemis Cotula, Dog Fennel, Mayweed, Stinking Chamomile, Stinking Mayweed, Anthemis Tinctoria, Dyers' Chamomile, Golden Marguerite, Yellow Chamomile, Anthemis Arvensis, Corn Chamomile, Corn Mayweed, Field Chamomile, Chrysanthemum Maximum, Leucanthemum Maximum, Oxeye Daisy, Chrysanthemum Maximum Maximum, Leucanthemum Superbum, Shasta Daisy, Chrysanthemum Lacustre, Leucanthemum Lacustre, Pyrenees Daisy, Chrysanthemum Ptarmiciflorum, Dusty Miller, Silver Lace, Silver-lace, Tanacetum Ptarmiciflorum, Golden Buttons, Scented Fern, Tanacetum Vulgare, Tansy, Crown Beard, Crown-beard, Crownbeard
Derivative terms: Composite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Composite Plant
Literary usage of Composite plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"... DO A composite plant. Bracts of involucre imbricated, dry, yellow ; the flowers
are yellowish and hermaphrodite; pappus hairy. ..."
2. Mineral Resources of the Waynesboro Quadrangle, Tennessee by Hugh Dinsmore Miser (1921)
"It in reality forms a part of a large composite plant of which the other two
parts are ... The following description of the composite plant has been kindly ..."
3. The Year-book of Treatment (1899)
"... in the root of scopolia japonica or roto, one of the Solanaceae; santonin,
obtained from the flowers of the composite plant artemisia maritima; solanin, ..."
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