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    PRAIRIE DOCK

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burnsplay

    Synonyms:

    American feverfew; Parthenium integrifolium; prairie dock; wild quinine

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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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