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An annual herb of the genus Amsinckia, native to southern California, with rough, bristly, pubescent herbage and large, coiled, yellow to orange flowers. Also called fiddleneck.
[New Latin Amsinckia, genus name, after Wilhelm Amsinck (died 1831), German botanist.]
Plant genus of the Boraginaceae family. Many of them contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Includes A. calycina, A. gloriosa, A. hispida, A. intermedia, A. lycopsoides, A. menziesii; seeds contaminate feed grain. Called also tarweed, ironweed, yellow burrweed.
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks
Synonym: genus Amsinckia
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