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CRAZY WEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crazy weed mean?
• CRAZY WEED (noun)
The noun CRAZY WEED has 1 sense:
1. any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock
Familiarity information: CRAZY WEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
crazy weed; crazyweed; locoweed
Hypernyms ("crazy weed" is a kind of...):
legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crazy weed"):
Oxytropis lambertii; purple loco; purple locoweed (tufted locoweed of southwestern United States having purple or pink to white flowers)
Holonyms ("crazy weed" is a member of...):
genus Oxytropis; Oxytropis (large widely-distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and racemose or spicate flowers each having a pea-like corolla with a clawed petal)
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