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groundsel

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ground·sel 1  (groundsl, groun-)
n.
Any of various plants of the genus Senecio, having rayed, usually yellow flower heads.
[Middle English groundeswille, from Old English grundeswylige, alteration (influenced by grund, ground) of gundeswilge : gund, pus + swelgan, to swallow (from its use in reducing abscesses); see swel- in Indo-European roots.]
ground·sel 2  (groundsl, groun-)
n.
Variant of groundsill.
groundsel [grounce-el]
Noun
a yellow-flowered weed [Old English grundeswelge]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.groundselgroundsel - Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers
Senecio vulgaris
genus Senecio, Senecio - enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds
weed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plants


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Some groundsel was strewed on a table which stood immediately under the cage.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
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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