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LOCOWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does locoweed mean? 

LOCOWEED (noun)
  The noun LOCOWEED has 2 senses:

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

2. street names for marijuanaplay

  Familiarity information: LOCOWEED used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LOCOWEED (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 ("locoweed" 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 "locoweed"):

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

Holonyms ("locoweed" 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)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Street names for marijuana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dope; gage; grass; green goddess; locoweed; Mary Jane; pot; sens; sess; skunk; smoke; weed

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

cannabis; ganja; marihuana; marijuana (the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect)


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