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  • noun Alternative form of hound's tongue.

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Examples

  • So, too, while in our meadows we purposely propagate tender fodder plants, like grasses and clovers, we find on the margins of our pastures and by our roadsides only protected species; such as thistles, houndstongue, cuckoo-pint, charlock, nettles

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • In houndstongue and catmint it has a nauseous taste.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • In order to encourage landowners to replace noxious ornamentals with more appropriate native or non-invasive species, the county is offering coupons worth $20 to residents in exchange for the following noxious ornamentals: Myrtle spurge, oxeye daisy, Dame's rocket, scentless chamomile, absinth wormwood and houndstongue.

    Aspen Times - Top Stories 2010

  • However, it is not effective on toadflax, spurge or mustards and has limited activity on houndstongue and blueweed.

    unknown title 2009

  • However, it is not effective on toadflax, spurge or mustards and has limited activity on houndstongue and blueweed.

    unknown title 2009

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