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Tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers
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hogweed
Word definitions for hogweed in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hogweed \Hog"weed`\, n. (Bot.) A common weed ( Ambrosia artemisi[ae]ge ). See Ambrosia , 3. In England, the Heracleum Sphondylium .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hogweed is a common name for several unrelated plants Hogweed may refer to: Heracleum , a genus in the parsley family containing several plants often called hogweed Heracleum sphondylium , the common hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum , giant hogweed Boerhavia ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers [syn: cow parsnip , Heracleum sphondylium ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1707, from hog (n.) + weed ; used in different places of various plants eaten by hogs or deemed fit only for them.
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!