leafcup

English

Etymology

leaf +‎ cup

Noun

leafcup (plural leafcups)

1. A coarse American composite weed, Polymnia uvedalia, now Smallanthus uvedalia.
2. A perennial herb, Polymnia canadensis
3. A rare perennial or annual herb found only in Tennessee and Georgia, Polymnia laevigata
4. A rare herb, Polymnia johnbeckii found only in patches along the Tennessee River.
5. An annual wildflower found only in Arkansas, Polymnia cossatotensis.

Derived terms

• Beck's leafcup
• hairy leafcup
• small-flowered leafcup
• whiteflower leafcup
• yellow flower leafcup

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “leafcup”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)