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fleabanes

fleabanes is the plural of fleabane.

Meaning of fleabane

Noun

fleabane (plural fleabanes)

  1. mostly in two tribes of subfamily Asteroideae
    • On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 120
  2. Conyza spp. (butterweeds or horseweed)
  3. Erigeron spp., especially Erigeron acre (blue fleabane)
  4. Inula spp. (yellowheads)
  5. Pluchea spp. (camphorweeds)
  6. Pulicaria spp. (false fleabane), especially common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica subsp. dysenterica, formerly Inula dysenterica)

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Questions about fleabanes

What is fleabanes the plural of?
Fleabanes is the plural of fleabane.

Words near fleabanes in the dictionary

  1. fleabag
  2. Fleabag era
  3. fleabaggy
  4. fleabags
  5. fleabane
  6. fleabanes
  7. fleabeetle
  8. fleabeetles
  9. fleabite
  10. fleabites
  11. fleabiting

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