dog fennel

Questions about dog fennel

What does dog fennel mean?

dog fennel means "weedy plant of southeastern United States having divided leaves and long clusters of greenish flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for dog fennel?

Close synonyms include Eupatorium capillifolium, mayweed, stinking mayweed, stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dog fennel a common word?

dog fennel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.