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‖ conyza Bot.|kəʊˈnaɪzə|
Also 5–6 coniza, 6 conisa; and (in 6) in anglicized form conyse.
[L., a. Gr. κονύζα, applied (according to Fraas) to the two plants Inula viscosa and I. graveolens.]
A genus of strong-smelling herbaceous or shrubby plants of the Composite order. The Flea-banes, to which the name was originally applied, are now placed in the genus Inula; the ‘Ploughman's Spikenard’ or ‘Fleawort’, is variously classed as Inula Conyza, DC., or Conyza squarrosa, L.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 487 Coniza is an herbe..That drie is good to kest under thi grayne. 1551Turner Herbal i. L iv b, Coniza is of twoo sortes..it may be called in Englyshe Conyse..strowed vpon the grounde, or in a perfume wyth the smoke of it, [it] dryueth away serpentes and gnattes and kylle[th] flees. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. xxiii. 34 Of Conyza or Flebane. Ibid. 35 Theophrast calleth the great Conyza the male, and the smaller Conyza the female. 1866Treas. Bot. 326. |