Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants that have flowers or foliage with an unpleasant odor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ill-smelling cruciferous plant, Diplotaxis muralis, of southern Europe.
- noun The jimsonweed.
- noun The penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense. It is an ill-smelling plant and renders unfit for use the milk of cows which eat it, while beef-cattle must be removed from pasture containing it two or three weeks before slaughter. It is more troublesome in Canada than in the United States. See
French weed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Stramonium. See
jamestown weed , anddatura .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima). - noun
Jimson weed (Datura stramonium ). - noun Any other
noxious plant.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America
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Examples
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Innovation Fuels has convinced a handful of upstate farmers to plant field pennycress -- also known as stinkweed -- under a pilot program being launched later this month.
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There is a noticeable difference between a stinkweed and a stinky read.
George Heymont: Too Many Tokes Over the Line George Heymont 2011
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There is a noticeable difference between a stinkweed and a stinky read.
George Heymont: Too Many Tokes Over the Line George Heymont 2011
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My sword rose and fell amidst a swarm of blackberry bush, stinkweed and maniacal thicket following a trail left by Lotus-eaters who had stopped to rest in that hobo Eden;
Lotus-eaters Swanson Tudor 2011
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There is a noticeable difference between a stinkweed and a stinky read.
George Heymont: Too Many Tokes Over the Line George Heymont 2011
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Rare, exotic but useless flora begin to bloom -- stinkweed, fungi, poison ivy, thorny briars.
Bio-Politics; Nature vs Globalism, Conservatism and Libertarianism 2008
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Rare, exotic but useless flora begin to bloom -- stinkweed, fungi, poison ivy, thorny briars.
Printing: Bio-Politics; Nature vs Globalism, Conservatism and Libertarianism 2008
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Malia Nob, scheduled to wrap up the hour talking about the cultural impact of GMOs and the events surrounding the Waimea Canyon Elementary School stinkweed episode in November, did not immediately return phone calls yesterday.
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Malia Nob, scheduled to wrap up the hour talking about the cultural impact of GMOs and the events surrounding the Waimea Canyon Elementary School stinkweed episode in November, did not immediately return phone calls yesterday.
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What was supposed to be a one-night party turned into a seven-day freak show of liquor, stinkweed and girls that were far too young for me (even then, in 1995).
slumry commented on the word stinkweed
a name for jimson weed and other plants
August 1, 2007