horseweed meaning

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horseweed (noun): erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States.

horseweed has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

horseweed as a noun

  1. erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States

    Synonyms: horse balm, stoneroot, stone-root, richweed, stone root, Collinsonia canadensis

    Type of: herb

  2. common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron

    Synonyms: Canadian fleabane, fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis

    Type of: weed

Scrabble score: 16 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with HO · words ending in ED · 9-letter words

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