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BLUEWEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blueweed mean?
• BLUEWEED (noun)
The noun BLUEWEED has 1 sense:
1. a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States
Familiarity information: BLUEWEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
blue devil; blue thistle; blueweed; Echium vulgare; viper's bugloss
Hypernyms ("blueweed" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Holonyms ("blueweed" is a member of...):
Echium; genus Echium (a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae)
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