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Definition of Butterweed
1. Noun. American ragwort with yellow flowers.
Generic synonyms: Wild Flower, Wildflower
Group relationships: Genus Senecio, Senecio
2. Noun. Any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio.
Definition of Butterweed
1. n. An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).
Definition of Butterweed
1. Noun. Any of various herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Conyza''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Butterweed
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Medical Definition of Butterweed
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Literary usage of Butterweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phytogeography of Nebraska: I. General Survey by Roscoe Pound, Frederic Edward Clements (1900)
"Such wastes may often be seen several hectares in extent. The butterweed ...
Before the butterweed has became well established, as in many incipient ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Hal. Butter-root (a corruption of Butter-wort). Pinguicula vulgaris, L. —Yka.
Ger. Butter-twitch. Avena elatior, L.—Cumb. butterweed. ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"In waste places and on ballast near the coast, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and
Quebec to North Carolina. July-Sept. 4. Senecio glabellus Poir. butterweed. ..."
4. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"... check seed development, but will not harm the smooth foliage, so that the
plant recovers and the operation requires to be repeated. butterweed ..."
5. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"In such regions a variety of accessory plants habitually develop, such as the
swamp butterweed, the buck-bean, the swamp-docks and several members of the ..."
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