butterweed

butterweed
/but"euhr weed'/, n.
1. any wild plant having conspicuously yellow flowers or leaves.
2. the horseweed.
3. a ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) or groundsel (S. vulgaris), both having yellow ray flowers.
[1885-90; BUTTER + WEED1]

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