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Tansy

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Noun

1. golden buttons, scented fern, tanacetum vulgare, tansy

common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tansy

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noun plural -sies
1. 
any of numerous plants of the genus Tanacetum, esp T. vulgare, having yellow flowers in flat-topped clusters and formerly used in medicine and for seasoning: family Asteraceae (composites)
2. 
any of various similar plants

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Tansy

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nounWord forms: plural ˈtansies
any of a genus (Tanacetum) of plants of the composite family; esp., a poisonous weed (T. vulgare) with strong-smelling foliage and flat-topped clusters of small, yellow, rayless flower heads

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tansy

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n. pl. tan·sies
Any of several plants of the genus Tanacetum of the composite family, especially T. vulgare, native to Eurasia, having corymbs of buttonlike yellow flower heads and aromatic, finely divided leaves that are sometimes used medicinally.

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