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Definition of Pulicaria dysenterica
1. Noun. Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas.
Group relationships: Genus Pulicaria, Pulicaria
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulicaria Dysenterica
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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