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, underlettuce ).
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 havinghollow stems , and bearingpurplish flowers in smallcorymbed 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
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trumpet + weed
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Examples
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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.
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