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NITWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nitweed mean? 

NITWEED (noun)
  The noun NITWEED has 1 sense:

1. annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


NITWEED (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Hypericum gentianoides; nitweed; orange grass; pine-weed; pineweed

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

St John's wort (any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves; traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil)


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