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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of composite plants of the tribe Senecionideæ and subtribe Tussilagineæ, characterized by scapes bearing many partly diœcious heads of flowers with involucral bracts in but one row.

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  • noun genus of rhizomatous herbs of north temperate regions: butterbur; sweet coltsfoot

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