CONSUMPTION WEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consumption weed mean? 

• CONSUMPTION WEED (noun)
  The noun CONSUMPTION WEED has 1 sense:

1. a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts

  Familiarity information: CONSUMPTION WEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSUMPTION WEED (noun)

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Meaning:

A shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Baccharis halimifolia; consumption weed; cotton-seed tree; groundsel bush; groundsel tree

Hypernyms ("consumption weed" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("consumption weed" is a member of...):

Baccharis; genus Baccharis (shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion control)