Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A European plant (Aegopodium podagraria) in the parsley family, widely naturalized in eastern North America, having small white flowers grouped in compound umbels. A variegated form is commonly grown as an edging or ground cover.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
goutwort .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (
Ægopodium Podagraria ); -- called alsobishop's weed ,ashweed , andherb gerard .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun ground-elder, a plant with scientific name Aegopodium podagraria.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I had huge amounts of goutweed in my old backyard.
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There are TONS of native plants that do well where goutweed grows.
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By the way, there are at least two varieties of goutweed – the variegated and the non-variegated.
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Snow on the mountain is also an invasive plant & might just take over your goutweed.
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Speaking of kind, Debbie, Bonnie and Grace came over yesterday afternoon and spent a couple of hours transforming my goutweed patch into a garden!
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And because its what I do – a recipe for goutweed soup
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I hopefully will have the worst of the goutweed dug up and the soil prepared by the time Deb gets here.
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Everyone wants their goutweed removed ;0Honestly, there are heartwarming stories from the gardening thing!
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Do you think any of those things – besides hostas of course – can survive in a goutweed patch?
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And maybe I can plant some other stuff that will survive in a goutweed patch.
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