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COMPOSITE PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers
Synonyms:
composite; composite plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("composite plant" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composite plant"):
compass flower; compass plant (any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass)
everlasting; everlasting flower (any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color)
Anthemis cotula; dog fennel; mayweed; stinking chamomile; stinking mayweed (widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs)
Anthemis tinctoria; dyers' chamomile; golden marguerite; yellow chamomile (Eurasian perennial herb with hairy divided leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in North America)
Anthemis arvensis; corn chamomile; corn mayweed; field chamomile (European white-flowered weed naturalized in North America)
Chrysanthemum maximum; Leucanthemum maximum; oxeye daisy (similar to oxeye daisy)
Chrysanthemum maximum maximum; Leucanthemum superbum; shasta daisy (hybrid garden flower derived from Chrysanthemum maximum and Chrysanthemum lacustre having large white flower heads resembling oxeye daisies; often placed in the genus Chrysanthemum)
Chrysanthemum lacustre; Leucanthemum lacustre; Pyrenees daisy (perennial of Portugal similar to the oxeye daisy)
Chrysanthemum ptarmiciflorum; dusty miller; silver-lace; silver lace; Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum (shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum)
golden buttons; scented fern; Tanacetum vulgare; tansy (common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally)
crown-beard; crown beard; crownbeard (any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads)
Holonyms ("composite plant" is a member of...):
aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)
