ROSEBAY WILLOWHERB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rosebay willowherb mean? 

• ROSEBAY WILLOWHERB (noun)
  The noun ROSEBAY WILLOWHERB has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ROSEBAY WILLOWHERB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROSEBAY WILLOWHERB (noun)

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("rosebay willowherb" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("rosebay willowherb" is a member of...):

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