KNAPWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knapweed mean? 

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

1. any of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNAPWEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

centaury (any plant of the genus Centaurea)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "knapweed"):

slender knapweed; Jersey knapweed (a variety of knapweed)

black knapweed; Centaurea nigra; hardheads; lesser knapweed (a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized)

Centaurea scabiosa; great knapweed; greater knapweed (tall European perennial having purple flower heads)