parthenium : Idioms & Phrases


chrysanthemum parthenium

  • noun bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
    Chrysanthemum parthenium; feverfew.
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genus parthenium

  • noun small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers
    Parthenium.
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parthenium argentatum

  • noun much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber
    guayule.
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parthenium hysterophorus

  • noun tropical American annual weed with small radiate heads of white flowers; adventive in southern United States
    bastard feverfew.
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parthenium integrifolium

  • noun stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns
    wild quinine; American feverfew; prairie dock.
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tanacetum parthenium

  • noun bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
    Chrysanthemum parthenium; feverfew.
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