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PRAIRIE DOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns
Synonyms:
American feverfew; Parthenium integrifolium; prairie dock; wild quinine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("prairie dock" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Holonyms ("prairie dock" is a member of...):
genus Parthenium; Parthenium (small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers)
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