Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any one of several leguminous plants producing the loco-disease in animals.
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Examples
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As long as there have been animals and apes, they have discovered and repeatedly used “drugs”, whether catnip, loco-weed, coca leaves, mushrooms, pot, alcohol, etc.
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One of them was from an old schoolmate of his, who had become a professor in a Northern college, asking for some loco-weed, to be added to the college botanical collection.
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Of these men who make their living in searching for the dreaded loco-weed and destroying it wherever found were Big Billy, Little Billy, and
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One good, big meal of loco-weed will ruin an animal forever.
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What was left of the loco-weed that had wrought his ruin was burned, and the Northern college professor is still without his specimens.
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The loco-weed (yerba-loco) was common in our country and ruined many of our horses, but more about it hereafter.
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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Somebody else must have been the blame of that, or maybe it wasn't poison gas at all -- might 'a' been just bad water or loco-weed.
The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery Willard F. Baker
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Saylo acknowledged his introduction to Scylla with great ceremony, and then told John that he had come to bring the loco-weed for the college professor.
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Some said poisoned water, others poison loco-weed.
The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery Willard F. Baker
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The gunny-sack of loco-weed was lying at the side of the porch, and both girls watched
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