Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants that have an unpleasant odor, especially Navarretia squarrosa, an annual plant of western North America with small blue flowers.
- noun Slang Marijuana.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
skunk-cabbage . - noun A low annual herb, Navarretia squarrosa, troublesome as a weed in grain and grass lands from Washington to California. Its ill odor (which suggests the common name) is damaging to the quality of the crop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Skunk cabbage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
American plants that have an offensiveodour , but especially Croton texensis and Polemonium viscosum - noun slang
strong -smelling cannabis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell
- noun tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell
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Examples
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Epazote, which is pronounced "eh-pah-zoe-teh" is a great staple in Mexico, but most people north pull this out of their garden because it is thought of as "skunkweed" unaware of the culinary value it
unknown title 2008
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By then the humidity had cooled, we'd lay in the skunkweed, near the burning barrel and stare up at the stars.
sense of place 2008
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No sand shifting beneath me, but sharp rocks and dirt with the faint odor of skunkweed.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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A clement breeze stirred the smell of sage, skunkweed, and hot dirt.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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No sand shifting beneath me, but sharp rocks and dirt with the faint odor of skunkweed.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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A clement breeze stirred the smell of sage, skunkweed, and hot dirt.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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I also need to work up another piece for "Detective Mac" involving smoky saxophones (it's all the skunkweed, you know.)
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"I'm wondering which I like least, the perfume our visitor left or the one your old skunkweed made."
With Trapper Jim in the North Woods Lawrence J. Leslie
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: Keep your Kentucky skunkweed, we'll keep the BC bud out here in cascadia.
Balloon Juice 2010
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The former, from a Massachuset Indian word, referred to Poke (- weed) n. 3; the latter, probably derived from a Delaware Indian term, was a name for skunkweed.
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