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groundsel [ˈgraʊnsəl] n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of certain plants of the genus Senecio, esp S. vulgaris, a Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers: family Asteraceae (composites) See also ragwort (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) groundsel tree a shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, of E North America, with white plumelike fruits: family Asteraceae [Old English grundeswelge, changed from gundeswilge, from gund pus + swelgan to swallow; after its use in poultices on abscesses] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Some groundsel was strewed on a table which stood immediately under the cage. There was fresh groundsel, too, for Miss Maylie's birds, with which Oliver, who had been studying the subject under the able tuition of the village clerk, would decorate the cages, in the most approved taste. There was always a superfluity of broad beans--it took nine or ten of Adam's strides to get to the end of the uncut grass walk that ran by the side of them; and as for other vegetables, there was so much more room than was necessary for them that in the rotation of crops a large flourishing bed of groundsel was of yearly occurrence on one spot or other. |
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