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Mayweed

noun
1.
Widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs.  Synonyms: Anthemis cotula, dog fennel, stinking chamomile, stinking mayweed.



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"Mayweed" Quotes from Famous Books



... flowers on every side, that the fact of the water in the estuary being salt scarcely seems to prevent their growing in it! Along the bank washed by the flowing tide, and almost touching the masses of tough golden-brown seaweed on the rocks, are multitudes of the daisy-flowers of sea-mayweed, flowering samphire, the stars of sow-thistle, and bright yellow bunches of charlock and straggling spires of wild-mignonette, against a darker background of blackthorn, hawthorn, ivy, and furze, lightly powdered with trails of bramble-blossom. Creeks, edged with low hills, wind away ...
— Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts • Rosalind Northcote

... house and the forest but a shallow trench almost filled with dead brown leaves and edged with fern. Out from that trench, sometimes stealthily slipping between the flattened fern-stalks, came a weasel, and, running through the plantains and fringe-like mayweed or stray pimpernel which covered the neglected ground, made for the straw-rick. Searching about for mice, he was certain to come across a hen's egg in some corner, perhaps in a hay-crib, which the ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies



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