n. Any of various plants in the composite family, chiefly of the genera Senecio and Packera, having rayed, usually yellow flower heads. [Middle English groundeswille, from Old English grundeswylige, alteration (influenced by grund, ground) of gundeswilge : gund, pus + swelgan, to swallow (from its use in reducing abscesses); see swel- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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n. The horizontal timber nearest the ground in the frame of a building. |
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