Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large South African seaweed: same as sea-trumpet, 2.
  • noun The joepye-weed or gravelroot, Eupatorium purpureum: so called from the use to which the stems are put by children.
  • noun Same as wild lettuce (which see, under lettuce).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.
  • noun The sea trumpet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.
  • noun The sea trumpet.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

trumpet +‎ weed

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word trumpetweed.

Examples

  • I fancied that the aster radula, diplopappus umbellatus, solidago lanceolatus, red trumpetweed, and many others which were conspicuously in bloom on the shore of the lake and on the carry, had a peculiarly wild and primitive look there.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.