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Whiteweed :: Whiteweed (n.) A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy..

Foveolate :: Foveolate (a.) Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers..

Rosinweed :: Rosinweed (n.) A name given in California to various composite plants which secrete resins or have a resinous smell.

Decomposite :: Decomposite (a.) Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.

Capel :: Capel (n.) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes..

Solidago :: Solidago (n.) A genus of yellow-flowered composite perennial herbs; golden-rod.

Tarweed :: Tarweed (n.) A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia..

Xanthium :: Xanthium (n.) A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.

Motley :: Motley (n.) Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style..

Clinanthium :: Clinanthium (n.) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.

Volute :: Volute (n.) A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale..

Maudeline :: Maudeline (n.) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow..

Composite :: Composite (n.) That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.

Vaginula :: Vaginula (n.) One of the tubular florets in composite flowers.

Modillion :: Modillion (n.) The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances..

Lettuce :: Lettuce (n.) A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis..

Coreopsis :: Coreopsis (n.) A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing..

Monophysite :: Monophysite (n.) One of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one composite nature. Also used adjectively..

Saw-wort :: Saw-wort (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; -- so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species.

Lion''s Foot :: Lion's foot () A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States..

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