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Pulicaria

Pulicaria

9.9
Small plants with bright yellow daisy-like flowers that people often use to keep insects away
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • The genus Pulicaria includes several herbs known for their bright yellow flowers.
  • D. pulicaria

Examples

  • In gardens, Pulicaria attracts pollinators with its vibrant blooms.

  • Traditional medicine uses Pulicaria for its potential herbal properties.

  • The result involving D. pulicaria seems surprising at first.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Furthermore, we previously found that higher relative and absolute abundance of D. pulicaria corresponds with smaller epidemics on two time scales:

    Academic text (2010)

  • Large epidemics most commonly erupt in systems with a proportionally higher density of the congeneric species D. pulicaria.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Between lake years and within a season, higher relative and absolute density of D. pulicaria correlated with decreasing infection prevalence (Hall et al. 2009b).

    Academic text (2010)

Synonyms

fleabane
vsPulicaria
9.8

A small daisy-like plant with yellow or white flowers often seen as a weed

is the scientific genus term for those plants native to Old World regions

Compounds

Pulicaria dysenterica
  • Specialized
9.9

A hairy perennial herb with yellow daisy-like flowers from Europe used to repel fleas

Surface Forms

Pulicaria singular
Pulicarias plural

Etymology

Pulicaria comes from the Latin root pulic-, which means 'flea' and is like the English word 'flea'. The plants were called fleabane because people used them to keep fleas and other insects away, so Pulicaria today is a group of daisy-like herbs often used as insect repellent.