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1987 Nicholson/Streep film
Answer for the clue "1987 Nicholson/Streep film ", 8 letters:
ironweed
Alternative clues for the word ironweed
- 1987 Meryl Streep movie
- Streep/Nicholson film
- ALBANY
- Pulitzer-winning William Kennedy novel
- Nicholson/Streep movie
- 1983 William Kennedy novel, later made into a Jack Nicholson film
- Any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue
Word definitions for ironweed in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ironweed \I"ron*weed`\, n. (Bot.) A tall weed with purplish flowers ( Vernonia Noveboracensis ). The name is also applied to other plants of the same genus.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue [syn: vernonia ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of certain species of the genus ''Vernonia'' of forbs and shrubs.
Usage examples of ironweed.
Everything was as it should be: the strong smell of sunflowers and ironweed in the dew, the clear blue and gold of the sky, the evening star, the purr of the milk into the pails, the grunts and squeals of the pigs fighting over their supper.
Heather clung to the rocks, and whitebark pines growing low to the earth provided nurseries for ironweed and mistletoe.
She held clutched against her belly a bunch of goldenrod and ironweed pulled from the fencerow of the cornfield.
Overnight, abandoned cornfields bloomed with head-high purple ironweed, burning and blinding and visionary.
The tree which bore such remarkable fruit was commonly an ironweed tree standing in a conspicuous situation.
Kane and I were sitting on his side steps overlooking his urban garden of sooty dirt, broken glass and ironweed as he smoked his evening cigarette.