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NITWEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nitweed mean?
• NITWEED (noun)
The noun NITWEED has 1 sense:
1. annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers
Familiarity information: NITWEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Hypericum gentianoides; nitweed; orange grass; pine-weed; pineweed
Hypernyms ("nitweed" is a kind of...):
St John's wort (any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves; traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil)
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