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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 purple flowers and deeply crenate 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

[hen + bit.]

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