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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants;

2. white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves are white and silky-hairy below; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum;
[syn: pyrethrum, Dalmatian pyrethrum, Dalmatia pyrethrum, Tanacetum cinerariifolium, Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium]

3. spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum;
[syn: painted daisy, pyrethrum, Tanacetum coccineum, Chrysanthemum coccineum]

4. used in former classifications for plants later placed in genus Chrysanthemum and now often included in genus Tanacetum;
[syn: Pyrethrum, genus Pyrethrum]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pyrethrum
    n 1: made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants
    2: white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves
       are white and silky-hairy below; source of an insecticide;
       sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum [syn: pyrethrum,
       Dalmatian pyrethrum, Dalmatia pyrethrum, Tanacetum
       cinerariifolium, Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium]
    3: spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having
       finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple
       flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus
       Chrysanthemum [syn: painted daisy, pyrethrum, Tanacetum
       coccineum, Chrysanthemum coccineum]
    4: used in former classifications for plants later placed in
       genus Chrysanthemum and now often included in genus Tanacetum
       [syn: Pyrethrum, genus Pyrethrum]