fleabane

1. 1.

   hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas

   Synonymsfeabane mulletPulicaria dysenterica

   Broaderherb

   Part ofPulicaria
2. 2.

   any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas

   Broaderwildflower

   Narrowerblue fleabanedaisy fleabaneorange daisyspreading fleabaneseaside daisyPhiladelphia fleabanerobin's plantainshowy daisy

   Part ofErigeron
3. 3.

   common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron

   SynonymshorseweedCanadian fleabaneConyza canadensisErigeron canadensis

   Broaderweed

   Part ofConyza

Other forms of fleabane

plural

fleabanes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fleabane

What does fleabane mean?

fleabane means "hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fleabane?

fleabane has 3 syllables: fle-a-bane. The stress falls on "fle".

What is another word for fleabane?

Close synonyms include feabane mullet, Pulicaria dysenterica, horseweed, Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis. 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 fleabane a common word?

fleabane is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.