Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of weedy composites, allied to Anthemis, natives of extra-tropical South America, South Africa, and Australia.
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- noun cosmopolitan herbs especially southern hemisphere; many used as ground covers
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Examples
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The stinking Chamomile (_Anthemis cotula_) or Mayweed, grows in cornfields, having a foetid smell, and often blistering the hand which gathers it.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Well, she does not leave; she stays here to complete the picture of the woman Torsen, child of the middle class who has read schoolbooks all through her formative years, who has learned all about _Artemis cotula_, but undernourished her soul.
Look Back on Happiness Knut Hamsun 1905
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But the common name of dog-fennel has been applied to the ox-eyed daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare, Lam.), and to the wild chamomile (Maruta cotula), or stinking Mayweed.
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