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BASTARD TOADFLAX
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bastard toadflax mean?
• BASTARD TOADFLAX (noun)
The noun BASTARD TOADFLAX has 1 sense:
1. woody creeping parasite of western North America having numerous thick powdery leaves and panicles of small dull-white flowers
Familiarity information: BASTARD TOADFLAX used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Woody creeping parasite of western North America having numerous thick powdery leaves and panicles of small dull-white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bastard toadflax; Comandra pallida
Hypernyms ("bastard toadflax" is a kind of...):
parasitic plant (plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it)
Holonyms ("bastard toadflax" is a member of...):
Comandra; genus Comandra (small genus of chiefly North American parasitic plants)
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