different between yellowhead vs fleabane

English

Etymology

yellow +? head

Noun

yellowhead (plural yellowheads)

1. Chaetodon xanthocephalus, the yellowhead butterflyfish.
2. Opistognathus aurifrons, the yellowheaded jawfish.
3. A plant of some species of genus Inula of the daisy family.
4. A plant in genus Trichoptilium, in the daisy family.
5. Zanthoxylum flavum, a plant related to citrus.
6. (informal) A pimple or pustule without a blackhead.
   • 2007, Tim Mitchell, Alison Dudley, Acne: The At Your Fingertips Guide (page 5)

     A pustule is the typical pus spot or yellowhead.

7. A New Zealand bird, Mohoua ochrocephala, the mohua.

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).

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Further reading

• fleabane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia