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dog fennel
dog fennel
noun
- another name for mayweed
- a weedy plant, Eupatorium capillifolium, of the southeastern US, having divided leaves and greenish rayless flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dog fennel1
First recorded in 1515–25
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Example Sentences
But then it hadn’t, and anyway he loved the dog fennel and the silver poplars and the hedge of lilacs on the south that separated Jenny’s well-drained kitchen garden from the dooryard.
From Literature
Republicans are the useful; Democrats the noxious—corn and wheat against the dog fennel and Canada thistles.
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A tea made out of dog fennel or corn shucks will cure chills and malaria.
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As she interestedly watched the little house and its yard she saw hurrying through the burdock and dog fennel toward the base of her rock a determined looking hen.
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I sprang from the soft dust and landed among the dog fennel of a fence corner, in a flying leap.
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