Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Eurasian plant (Lamium amplexicaule) in the mint family, having toothed opposite leaves and small white or purplish-red flowers, widely naturalized in North America.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A weed, Lamium amplexicaule, or dead-nettle, specifically called the greater henbit.
- noun The ivy-leafed speedwell, Veronica hederæfolia, specifically called the lesser or small henbit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A weed of the genus Lamium (
Lamium amplexicaule ) with deeply crenate leaves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lamium amplexicaule, an
annual plant with pink or purpleflowers and deeplycrenate leaves .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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However, most work very well in late summer to prevent winter weeds, such as henbit and annual bluegrass (Poa annua).
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However, most work very well in late summer to prevent winter weeds, such as henbit and annual bluegrass (Poa annua).
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The only good thing I can say about it is that henbit is easy to pull up.
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Not violets, dandelions, or even crabgrass, not henbit, corn salad or bitter cress, but the strongest of them all, Hellebores.
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I had a nice crop of henbit to mow, not much bermuda grass.
My Jonquils Are Blooming! | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008
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No bishops weed here, but plenty of others, the worst offenders are henbit, oxalis, wild onions, wild strawberries not the good tasting ones and violets.
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I noticed the henbit and other cress like weed are BLOOMING!
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MMD…I did smell the henbit and figured it was not an herb.
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I think I am sharing your henbit problem over her in middle TN.
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When we first moved here and these little seedlings, the henbit, not the kale, appeared in the winter, I happily thought some of my flowers had seeded themselves.
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