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1987 Meryl Streep movie
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ironweed
Alternative clues for the word ironweed
- Pulitzer-winning William Kennedy novel
- Streep/Nicholson film
- 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
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Word definitions for ironweed in dictionaries
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Ironweed is a 1987 American drama film directed by Héctor Babenco . It is based on the Pulitzer Prize -winning novel of the same name by William Kennedy , who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep , with Carroll Baker , Michael ...
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n. Any of certain species of the genus ''Vernonia'' of forbs and shrubs.
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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 ]
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.