corn mayweed

corn mayweed
noun
1. ubiquitous European annual weed with white flowers and finely divided leaves naturalized and sometimes cultivated in eastern North America; sometimes included in genus Matricaria
Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
Member Holonyms: ↑Tripleurospermum, ↑genus Tripleurospermum
2. European white-flowered weed naturalized in North America
Hypernyms: ↑composite, ↑composite plant
Member Holonyms: ↑Anthemis, ↑genus Anthemis

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noun
2. : a European weed (Matricaria inodora) with white flowers and finely divided leaves that is naturalized and sometimes cultivated in eastern No. America

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