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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of the natural order Compositæ, mostly perennial herbs and natives of America.
  • noun [lowercase] A species of this genus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.

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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae — including Joe-Pye weed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large genus of chiefly tropical herbs having heads of white or purplish flowers

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