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dog fennel

noun



dog fennel

noun

  1. another name for mayweed
  2. a weedy plant, Eupatorium capillifolium, of the southeastern US, having divided leaves and greenish rayless flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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.

Republicans are the useful; Democrats the noxious—corn and wheat against the dog fennel and Canada thistles.

A tea made out of dog fennel or corn shucks will cure chills and malaria.

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.

I sprang from the soft dust and landed among the dog fennel of a fence corner, in a flying leap.

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