CRAZYWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crazyweed mean? 

• CRAZYWEED (noun)
  The noun CRAZYWEED has 1 sense:

1. any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock

  Familiarity information: CRAZYWEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAZYWEED (noun)

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 ("crazyweed" 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 "crazyweed"):

Oxytropis lambertii; purple loco; purple locoweed (tufted locoweed of southwestern United States having purple or pink to white flowers)

Holonyms ("crazyweed" 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)