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RAGWORT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

American ragwort with yellow flowers

Synonyms:

butterweed; ragwort; Senecio glabellus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("ragwort" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("ragwort" is a member of...):

genus Senecio; Senecio (enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity

Synonyms:

benweed; ragweed; ragwort; Senecio jacobaea; tansy ragwort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("ragwort" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("ragwort" is a member of...):

genus Senecio; Senecio (enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds)

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