Hogweed

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of certain coarse weedy plants of the genera Ambrosia, Erigeron, or Heracleum.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any coarse weedy herb.
  • n. An umbelliferous plant, of genus Heracleum, some of them being poisonous.
  • n. Certain plants from the genera Ambrosia, Erigeron, or Heracleum.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A common weed (Ambrosia artemisiæge). See ambrosia, 3.
  • n. In England, the Heracleum Sphondylium.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of several plants, as Heracleum Sphondylium, Polygonum aviculare, and Ambrosia artemisiæfolia. The poisonous hogweed is Aristolochia grandiflora of the West Indies.
  • n. In the West Indies, any one of several plants of the genus Boerhaavia, especially B. erecta, which is much relished by hogs.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    herbaceous plant    Herb   
    Variant
    ambrosia   
     
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