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WARTWEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wartweed mean?
• WARTWEED (noun)
The noun WARTWEED has 1 sense:
1. not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun
Familiarity information: WARTWEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
devil's milk; Euphorbia helioscopia; sun spurge; wartweed; wartwort
Hypernyms ("wartweed" is a kind of...):
spurge (any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice)
Holonyms ("wartweed" is a member of...):
Euphorbia; genus Euphorbia (type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice)
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