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Antennaria

noun

small woolly perennial herbs having small whitish discoid flowers surrounded by a ring of club-shaped bristles

• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family

• Member Meronyms:

↑ladies' tobacco, ↑lady's tobacco, ↑Antennaria plantaginifolia, ↑cat's foot, ↑cat's feet, ↑pussytoes, ↑Antennaria dioica

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\\ˌan.ˌteˈna(a)rēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Medieval Latin antenna + New Latin -aria; from the resemblance of the pappus of the staminate flowers to the antennae of certain insects

: a genus of woolly or hoary herbs (family Compositae) that are natives mostly of temperate regions and have small whitish discoid flower heads and a pappus formed of club-shaped bristles — see cat's-foot

Useful english dictionary. 2012.