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Definition: Fleabane |
FleabaneNoun1. Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas. 2. Any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas. 3. Common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: FleabaneSynonyms: feabane mullet (n), horseweed (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fleabane |
| English words defined with "fleabane": genus Pulicaria ♦ Pulicaria. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A Purple Fleabane (Erigeron aspergineus) found in the high elevations of Steens Mountain in Southeastern Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |  | Medium shot of desert yellow fleabane (Erigeron linearis). Credit: John Craig. |
 | Native bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoregneria spicata ssp. spicata) with desert paintbrush (Castilleja Chromosa) and desert yellow fleabane (Erigeron linearis). Credit: John Craig. |  | Farshot of desert yellow fleabane (Erigeron linearis). Credit: John Craig. |
 | Closeup shot of purple cushion fleabane (Erigeron poliospermus var. poliospermus). Credit: John Craig. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Fleabane" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fleabane" is used about 2 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 (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fleabane": blue fleabane ♦ canadian fleabane ♦ daisy fleabane ♦ orange fleabane ♦ Philadelphia fleabane ♦ spreading fleabane. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
fleabane | 15 |
daisy fleabane | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fleabane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | kanadisk bakkestjerne (Canada fleabane, horseweed, marestail). (various references) | |
Dutch | canadese fijnstraal (Canada fleabane, horseweed, marestail), Canadese fýnstraal (Canadian fleabane). (various references) | |
Finnish | kanadankoiransilmä (Canada fleabane, horseweed, marestail). (various references) | |
French | vergerette du Canada (Canada fleabane), érigéron du Canada (Canada fleabane). (various references) | |
German | kanadisches Berufkraut (Canada fleabane, horseweed, marestail), Dürrwurz (Canada fleabane, horseweed, marestail). (various references) | |
Greek | ψυλλοβότανο. (various references) | |
Italian | saggitaria (Canada fleabane, horseweed, marestail), saeppola (Canada fleabane, horseweed, marestail), erigeron canadese (Canada fleabane, horseweed, marestail). (various references) | |
Manx | bossan jargan (greater fleabane). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eabaneflay.(various references) | |
Spanish | hierba de caballo (Canada fleabane, horseweed, marestail), erigeron del Canadá (Canada fleabane, horseweed, marestail). (various references) | |
Swedish | kanadabinka (Canada fleabane, horseweed, marestail). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fleabane": fleabanes. (additional references) | |
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"Fleabane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: febantel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-f-l-n" | |
-2 letters: baleen, beflea, enable. | |
-3 letters: abele, alane, anele, banal, fable, faena, leben. | |
-4 letters: able, alae, alan, alba, alee, alef, alfa, anal, baal, bale, bane, bean, beef, been, bene, blae, elan, fane, feal, feel, flab, flan, flea, flee, lane, leaf, lean, nabe. | |
-5 letters: aal, aba, ala, alb, ale, ana, ane, baa, bal, ban, bee, bel, ben. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-e-f-l-n" | |
+1 letter: fleabanes. | |
+4 letters: ineffaceable, ineffaceably, transferable. | |
+5 letters: favorableness, indefatigable, transferrable. | |
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