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Plant that's crimson gets weak in time when secluded
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ragweed
Alternative clues for the word ragweed
- Any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma
- Sneeze starter
- Sneeze promoter
- Allergy sufferer's bane
- Pollen-producing plant responsible for many allergic reactions
- Hay-fever cause
- First person in collective was angry about threat to crops?
- Sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity
Word definitions for ragweed in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A plant of the genus ''Ambrosia''. These weeds are particularly noted for producing pollen which people with hay fever are allergic to.
Usage examples of ragweed.
His nose was sniffly from May until July, then again during ragweed season at the end of August.
But those times were like a lost paradise, and the sprawly corrals around the place now stood near empty and growing over in ragweed.
The outlying fields grew first garish with golden ragweed and scarlet poppies, and then dull green again with the brown-knotted rushes and sombre sedge, and all other marish growths, until the re-annexation was complete, and they once more were homogeneous part and parcel of the conquering bog.
Isaac had been sent to watch, overran the garden and demolished everything but the purslane and ragweed, while all the time the young man was under the hedge working out mathematical problems from his Descartes.
A fringe of ragweeds and Russian thistle growing in its dirt roof gave it a disreputable, unshaven look.
Don and I were late bloomers physically, puny until we graduated from grammar school after which we shot up like ragweed plants in July.
Worse yet, sumpweed is a wind-pollinated relative of ragweed, the notorious hayfever-causing plant.