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- Composite - v. t. - Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
- Composite - v. t. - Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
- Composite - v. t. - Belonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
- Composite - n. - That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.
- Saw-wort - n. - Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; -- so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species.
- Safflower - n. - An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.
- Mugwort - n. - A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.
- Groundsel - v. - An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe.
- Coreopsis - n. - A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.
- Joseph's flower - - A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify.
- Senecio - n. - A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.
- Yarrow - n. - An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil, and nosebleed.
- Butterbur - n. - A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.
- Leontodon - n. - A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the fall dandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; -- called also lion's tooth.
- Clinanthium - n. - The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.
- Hetercephalous - a. - Bearing two kinds of heads or capitula; -- said of certain composite plants.
- Vaginula - n. - One of the tubular florets in composite flowers.
- Joe-Pye weed - - A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (E. purpureum), with purplish flowers, and whorled leaves.
- Capel - n. - A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.
- Milfoil - n. - A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow.
- Foveolate - a. - Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.
- Ironheads - n. - A European composite herb (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle.
- Ragweed - n. - A common American composite weed (Ambrosia artemisiaefolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed.
- Gnaphalium - n. - A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.
- Sharewort - n. - A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the seacoast of Europe.
- Nipplewort - n. - A yellow-flowered composite herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress.
- Lion's foot - - A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States.
- Thistle - n. - Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants.
- Liguliflorous - a. - Bearing only ligulate flowers; -- said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, lettuce, hawkweed, etc.