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Senecio definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds [syn: Senecio, genus Senecio]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -cios) Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, old man, groundsel (from its hoary pappus), from sen-, senic-, senex old man Date: 1562 any of a large genus (Senecio) of widely distributed composite plants that have alternate or basal leaves and flower heads usually with yellow ray flowers

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. any composite plant of the genus Senecio, including many cultivated species as well as groundsel and ragwort. Etymology: L senecio old man, groundsel, with ref. to the hairy fruits

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Senecio Se*ne"ci*o, n. [L., groundsel, lit., an old man. So called in allusion to the hoary appearance of the pappus.] (Bot.) A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.