BENWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does benweed mean? 

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

1. widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENWEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

benweed; ragweed; ragwort; Senecio jacobaea; tansy ragwort

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

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("benweed" is a member of...):

genus Senecio; Senecio (enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds)