JEWELWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jewelweed mean? 

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

1. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JEWELWEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

celandine; Impatiens capensis; jewelweed; lady's earrings; orange balsam; touch-me-not

Hypernyms ("jewelweed" 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 ("jewelweed" is a member of...):

genus Impatiens (annual or perennial herbs with stems more or less succulent; cosmopolitan except for South America, Australia, and New Zealand)

 Context examples 

The spinach leaf might be better suited for a highly vascularized tissue, like cardiac tissue, whereas the cylindrical hollow structure of the stem of Impatiens capensis (jewelweed) might better suit an arterial graft.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)