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RUDBECKIA
Rudbeckia, genus Rudbeckia
(noun) North American perennial herbs with showy cone-shaped flower heads
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
rudbeckia (plural rudbeckias)
Any member of the genus Rudbeckia of coneflowers.
Source: Wiktionary
Rud*beck"i*a, n. [NL. So named after Olaf Rudebeck, a Swedish botanist.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species, exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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