[syn: horseweed, Canadian fleabane, fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fleabane \Flea"bane`\, n. (Bot.)
One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving
away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera
Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fleabane
n 1: hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers
reputed to destroy or drive away fleas [syn: fleabane,
feabane mullet, Pulicaria dysenterica]
2: any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron
having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas
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 [syn: horseweed, Canadian fleabane, fleabane,
Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis]