different between conyza vs fleabane

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (kónuza).

Noun

con?za f (genitive con?zae); first declension

1. fleabane (clarification of this definition is needed)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Translingual: Conyza

References

• conyza in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conyza in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From flea +? bane.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /?fli?be?n/

Noun

fleabane (plural fleabanes)

1. Any of various species of flowering plants, mostly in two subfamilies in Asteroideae, that typically repel insects:
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 120:

     On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.

   1. Astereae
      1. Conyza (butterweeds or horseweed)
      2. Erigeron, especially Erigeron acre (blue fleabane)
   2. Inuleae
      1. Inula (yellowheads)
      2. Pluchea (camphorweeds)
      3. Pulicaria (false fleabane), especially common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica subsp. dysenterica, formerly Inula dysenterica)
2. In Cichorioideae, Vernonia (ironweeds).

Translations

Further reading

• fleabane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia