different between inula vs fleabane

English

Etymology

From Latin inula. Compare elecampane.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??nj?l?/, /??nj?l?/

Noun

inula (countable and uncountable, plural inulas)

1. Any of several plants of the genus Inula, such as elecampane.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:

     In springtime the ruins are a blaze of contrapuntal colour: wild gladioli of magenta, bright yellow inulas and spiky acanthus thrust up among sarcophagi carpeted with tiny blue saxifrage and sprawled over by convolvulus with great pink trumpets.

2. The dried root of such a plant used as a stimulant.

Translations

Further reading

• Inula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• uinal

Italian

Etymology

From Latin inula.

Noun

inula f (plural inule)

1. inula

Latin

Alternative forms

• enula (Medieval Latin)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?i.nu.la/, [??n???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?i.nu.la/, [?i?nul?]

Noun

inula f (genitive inulae); first declension

1. Any of several plants of the genus Inula, including elecampane.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: inula
• ? Italian: inula

References

• inula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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