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AMBROSIA PSILOSTACHYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ambrosia psilostachya mean? 

AMBROSIA PSILOSTACHYA (noun)
  The noun AMBROSIA PSILOSTACHYA has 1 sense:

1. coarse perennial ragweed with creeping roots of dry barren lands of southwestern United States and Mexicoplay

  Familiarity information: AMBROSIA PSILOSTACHYA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMBROSIA PSILOSTACHYA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Coarse perennial ragweed with creeping roots of dry barren lands of southwestern United States and Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ambrosia psilostachya; perennial ragweed; western ragweed

Hypernyms ("Ambrosia psilostachya" is a kind of...):

ambrosia; bitterweed; ragweed (any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma)


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