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American feverfew

noun

stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns

• Syn: ↑wild quinine, ↑prairie dock, ↑Parthenium integrifolium

• Hypernyms: ↑subshrub, ↑suffrutex

• Member Holonyms: ↑Parthenium, ↑genus Parthenium

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized A

: a stout herb (Parthenium integrifolium) of the southeastern United States with whitish flowers resembling those of the feverfew

Useful english dictionary. 2012.