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Webster 1913 Edition


Ragwort

Rag′wortˊ

(răg′wûrtˊ)
,
Noun.
(Bot.)
A name given to several species of the composite genus
Senecio
.
Senecio aureus
is the golden ragwort of the United States;
Senecio elegans
is the purple ragwort of South Africa.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ragwort

RAG'WORT

,
Noun.
A plant of the genus Senecio.

Definition 2024


ragwort

ragwort

English

Senecio barbertonicus

Noun

ragwort (countable and uncountable, plural ragworts)

  1. Any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera.
    • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 237:
      Ragwort is under the command of dame Venus, and cleanses, digests and discusses.

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