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Definition: Senecio |
SenecioNoun1. Enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Senecio" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1887. (references) |
Etymology: Senecio \Se*ne"ci*o\, noun. [Latin expression, groundsel, literally, an old man. So called in allusion to the hoary appearance of the pappus.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Health | A species of toxic plants of the Compositae. The poisonous compounds are alkaloids which cause cattle diseases, neoplasms, and liver damage and are used to produce cancers in experimental animals. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Genus Senecio of the daisy family (Family Asteraceae) includes ragworts and groundsels. The flower heads are normally rayed, completely yellow, and the heads are borne in branched clusters. Though of late the genus has been reviewed and split up, it still contains a vast number of species (about 1,500) of extremely wide form including leaf succulents, stem and tuber succulents, annuals, perennials, aquatic forms, climbers, shrubs and small trees.
Included here are the following species:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Senecio."
Synonym: SenecioSynonym: genus Senecio (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Senecio |
| English words defined with "Senecio": butterweed ♦ Delairea odorata ♦ genus Packera, genus Senecio, German ivy, golden groundsel, golden ragwort ♦ Leopard's bane ♦ Packera, Packera aurea ♦ Senecio aureus, Senecio bigelovii, Senecio cineraria, Senecio cruentus, Senecio doublasii, Senecio glabellus, Senecio jacobaea, Senecio milkanioides, Senecio triangularis, Senecio vulgaris. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Senecio": common groundsel, common ragwort ♦ Molteno cattle disease, Molteno disease, Molten's disease ♦ Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids ♦ senecio poisoning, seneciosis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Senecio" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (groundsel, ragwort). |
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 | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Dusty miller - Senecio cineraria in the dunes at South Cape Beach.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Closeup shot of Senecio integerimus.Credit: John Craig. |
 | Senecio.Credit: Ron Halvorson. |  | Medium shot of wildflowers (genus Lupinus, Penstemon, Senecio).Credit: John Craig. |
 | Farshot of Senecio intefermis.Credit: John Craig. |  | Farshot of Senecio intefermis.Credit: John Craig. |
 | Medium shot of Senecio intefermis.Credit: John Craig. |  | Medium shot of tall Western Groundsel, Senecio Integerrimus, wildflower.Credit: John Craig. |
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| "Senecio" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Senecio" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 80% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Senecio": genus Senecio ♦ Senecio aureus ♦ Senecio bigelovii ♦ Senecio cineraria ♦ Senecio cruentus ♦ Senecio Doronicum ♦ Senecio doublasii ♦ Senecio elegans ♦ Senecio glabellus ♦ Senecio hieracifolius ♦ Senecio jacobaea ♦ Senecio lobatus ♦ Senecio milkanioides ♦ senecio poisoning ♦ Senecio Saracenicus ♦ Senecio scandens ♦ Senecio triangularis ♦ Senecio vulgaris. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
senecio | 34 |
rowleyanus senecio | 10 |
himalaya senecio | 6 |
radicans senecio | 3 |
confusus senecio | 3 |
senecio cineraria | 3 |
aureus senecio | 2 |
ficoides senecio | 2 |
photo senecio | 2 |
senecio vulgaris | 2 |
mikanioides senecio | 2 |
klee paul senecio | 2 |
senecio sp | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Senecio"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | seneciose (senecio poisoning, seneciosis). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | sénéciose (senecio poisoning, seneciosis). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Senezismus (senecio poisoning, seneciosis), Senecio-Krankheit (senecio poisoning, seneciosis). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | seneciosi (senecio poisoning, seneciosis), avvelenamento da senecio (senecio poisoning, seneciosis). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | grunlus vooar (wood senecio). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eneciosay seneciose (senecio poisoning, seneciosis). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "Senecio": senecios. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: conies, cosine, eosine, icones, nieces, oscine. | |
-2 letters: cense, cines, cions, coins, cones, cosie, eosin, icons, niece, noise, onces, scene, scion, scone, seine, since, sonic. | |
-3 letters: cees, cine, cion, coin, cone, coni, cons, eons, ices, icon, ions, nice, noes, nose, once, ones, seen, sene, sice, sine, sone. | |
-4 letters: cee, cis, con, cos, ens, eon, ice. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: cineoles, codeines, seicento, senecios. | |
+2 letters: cenobites, centesimo, cicerones, cinereous, cogencies, coinheres, conceives, congeries, consignee, croceines, economies, economise, ejections, elections, erections, evections, exocrines, genocides, insolence, isogeneic, kinescope, monoecies, neoterics, nosepiece, obeisance, pinecones, potencies, recension, recession, recognise, resection, secession, secretion, sectioned, seicentos, selection, violences. | |
+3 letters: arecolines, biocenoses, bioscience, centesimos, centrioles, ceremonies, choiceness, clowneries, coagencies, codesigned, coenobites, coexistent, comeliness, conceivers, concessive, concierges, congestive, conominees, conscience, considered, consignees, coresident, cornerwise, cornetcies, cosinesses, covellines, cozinesses, cryogenies, cytogenies, deaconries, deceptions, decisioned, declension, defections, dejections, descension, detections, economised, economises, economizes, endocrines, estrogenic, exceptions, excretions, executions, exoticness, geomancies, geoscience, impotences, indolences, innocences, insolences, isoleucine, kinescoped, kinescopes, macedoines, necropsied, necropsies, nonscience, nosepieces, nucleoside, obediences, obeisances, opulencies, osteogenic, precession, recensions, receptions, recessions, recognised, recognises, recognizes, recoinages, recombines, reconciles, reconsider, refections, reinforces, rejections, resections, secessions, secretions, selections, skeletonic, solvencies, ventricose. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 65 63 69 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -. . -.-. .. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100011 01101001 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n e c i o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0065 0063 0069 006F |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53718071697581 |
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