Definition of Pulicaria dysenterica

1. Noun. Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas.

Exact synonyms: Feabane Mullet, Fleabane
Group relationships: Genus Pulicaria, Pulicaria
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulicaria Dysenterica

Puffinus
Puffinus puffinus
Puget Sound
Pugh
Pughe
Pugin
Puginesque
Puglia
Pujunan
Puka Inti
Pula
Pulex
Pulex irritans
Puli
Pulicaria
Pulicaria dysenterica (current term)
Pulicidae
Pulik
Pulinda
Pulindas
Pulitzer
Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prizes
Pulitzers
Pullman
Pullman car
Pullman porter
Pullmans
Pulmonata
Pulsatilla

Literary usage of Pulicaria dysenterica

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"also my friend Mr. Newbould has occasionally found to be the case in Pulicaria dysenterica (L.). Hence there remains no constant char, to distinguish ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Two species are found in England, one of which, Pulicaria dysenterica, common in most places, has oblong leaves, a cottony stem twelve to fifteen inches ..."

3. Popular field botany: Containing a Familiar and Technical Description of the by Agnes Catlow (1848)
"Pulicaria dysenterica. (Plate XIX. Fig. 74.) Common Flea-bane. This genus is distinguished from Erigeron, by both rays and centre being yellow; ..."

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