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Definition of Stinking mayweed
1. Noun. Widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs.
Generic synonyms: Composite, Composite Plant
Group relationships: Anthemis, Genus Anthemis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stinking Mayweed
Literary usage of Stinking mayweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1915)
"Wild buckwheat, Canada thistle, foxtail, lamb's quarters, ragweed, plantain,
annual and perennial sow thistle, milkweed, stinking mayweed, smartweed, ..."
2. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"stinking mayweed, Stinking Chamomile (Anthemis Cotula L.).—An annual plant with
daisy-like heads at the ends of long furrowed stalks. ..."
3. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"... Lam.,) and to the wild chamomile, (Maruta cotula^) or stinking Mayweed.
The Tallahassee Floridian (1861) says : " Leather tanned by the new process. ..."