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RABBIT-WEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rabbit-weed mean?
• RABBIT-WEED (noun)
The noun RABBIT-WEED has 1 sense:
1. low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
Familiarity information: RABBIT-WEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
broom snakeroot; broom snakeweed; Gutierrezia sarothrae; rabbit-weed; rabbitweed; snakeweed; turpentine weed
Hypernyms ("rabbit-weed" is a kind of...):
matchbush; matchweed (any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches)
Holonyms ("rabbit-weed" is a member of...):
genus Gutierrezia; Gutierrezia (sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America)
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