Crossword clues for hogweed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hogweed \Hog"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
A common weed ( Ambrosia artemisi[ae]ge). See Ambrosia, 3.
In England, the Heracleum Sphondylium.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any coarse weedy herb. 2 An umbelliferous plant, of genus ''Heracleum'', some of them being poisonous. 3 Certain plants from the genera ''Ambrosia'', ''Erigeron'', or ''Heracleum.
WordNet
n. tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers [syn: cow parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium]
Wikipedia
Hogweed is a common name for several unrelated plants
Hogweed may refer to:
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Heracleum, a genus in the parsley family containing several plants often called hogweed
- Heracleum sphondylium, the common hogweed
- Heracleum mantegazzianum, giant hogweed
- Boerhavia, a genus in the four o'clock family containing species sometimes called hogweed
- Zaleya galericulata, a species in the iceplant family
Usage examples of "hogweed".
It was simply a platform well seeded with hogweed and rose bay willow herb.
Katriona would wake up drowning in a swamp or having been turned into a giant hogweed or a troll.
While working, he had explained to her how the hogweed grew over the portal every morning in a high, poisonous wall and had to be hacked through every night by whoever dared to enter the Lower Realms.
And there shall I be teaching wretched kids about the lesser hogweed and the greater bladderwort!