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Smartweed

Smartweed \Smart"weed`\, n. (Bot.) An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum ( P. Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.

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smartweed

n. Any of more than a dozen species of the genus ''Polygonum''.

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Huckleberry Finn-type kids who cooked lily root and chewed smartweed, and fished with bamboo poles and used old inner tubes for floats, and annoyed small animals and adults with slingshots, and got around on iron bikes that weighed more than they did.