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dog's fennel

dog's fennel is the alternative form of dogfennel.

Meaning of dogfennel

Noun

dogfennel (plural dogfennels)

  1. Anthemis cotula, an annual plant native to Europe and North Africa.
  2. (Canada, US) Any of various similar American plants, especially Eupatorium capillifolium, a perennial plant.
    • “I aint been teasing him.” Luster said. “He was playing with that bottle full of dogfennel and all of a sudden he started up bellering.”1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
  3. A plant in the genus Chamaemelum.

Forms of dog's fennel

pluraldog's fennels

Questions about dog's fennel

What is dog's fennel the alternative form of?
Dog's fennel is the alternative form of dogfennel.

Words near dog's fennel in the dictionary

  1. dog's cherries
  2. dog's cherry
  3. dog's dangly bits
  4. dog's dinner
  5. dog's egg
  6. dog's fennel
  7. dog's fennels
  8. dog's fingers
  9. dog's letter
  10. dog's life
  11. dog's mercury

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dog's fennel (page history and authors); dogfennel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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