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BENWEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does benweed mean?
• BENWEED (noun)
The noun BENWEED has 1 sense:
1. widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity
Familiarity information: BENWEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
benweed; ragweed; ragwort; Senecio jacobaea; tansy ragwort
Hypernyms ("benweed" is a kind of...):
weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)
Holonyms ("benweed" is a member of...):
genus Senecio; Senecio (enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds)
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