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CRAZY WEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crazy weed mean? 

CRAZY WEED (noun)
  The noun CRAZY WEED has 1 sense:

1. any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestockplay

  Familiarity information: CRAZY WEED used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CRAZY WEED (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

crazy weed; crazyweed; locoweed

Hypernyms ("crazy weed" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crazy weed"):

Oxytropis lambertii; purple loco; purple locoweed (tufted locoweed of southwestern United States having purple or pink to white flowers)

Holonyms ("crazy weed" is a member of...):

genus Oxytropis; Oxytropis (large widely-distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and racemose or spicate flowers each having a pea-like corolla with a clawed petal)


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