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Pyrethrum Common

Pyrethrum has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants

2

white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves are white and silky-hairy below; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum

3

spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum

4

used in former classifications for plants later placed in genus Chrysanthemum and now often included in genus Tanacetum

5

Any of several daisy-like perennial African plants of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum cinerariifolium.

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insecticide herb flower asterid dicot genus
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