FIREWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fireweed mean? 

• FIREWEED (noun)
  The noun FIREWEED has 2 senses:

1. tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant

2. an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers

  Familiarity information: FIREWEED used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIREWEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Epilobium angustifolium; fireweed; giant willowherb; rosebay willowherb; wickup

Hypernyms ("fireweed" is a kind of...):

willowherb (a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs)

Holonyms ("fireweed" is a member of...):

Epilobium; genus Epilobium (large widely distributed genus of herbs and subshrubs of especially western North America and Arctic areas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Erechtites hieracifolia; fireweed

Hypernyms ("fireweed" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("fireweed" is a member of...):

genus Erechtites (coarse herbs with whitish discoid flower heads and silky pappus)