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CHAFFWEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chaffweed mean?
• CHAFFWEED (noun)
The noun CHAFFWEED has 1 sense:
1. weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves
Familiarity information: CHAFFWEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bastard pimpernel; chaffweed; false pimpernel
Hypernyms ("chaffweed" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Holonyms ("chaffweed" is a member of...):
Centunculus; genus Centunculus (a dicotyledonous genus of the family Primulaceae)
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