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Definitions for snakeweedˈsneɪkˌwid

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

snake•weedˈsneɪkˌwid(n.)

  1. Category: Plants

    Ref: bistort (def. 1). 1

Origin of snakeweed:

1590–1600

Princeton's WordNet

  1. rabbitweed, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeweed, broom snakeroot, turpentine weed, Gutierrezia sarothrae(noun)

    low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads

Wiktionary

  1. snakeweed(Noun)

    Any of various, unrelated plants reputed to cure snakebite

  2. snakeweed(Noun)

    A poisonous American plant of the genus Gutierrezia

Webster Dictionary

  1. Snakeweed(noun)

    a kind of knotweed (Polygonum Bistorta)

  2. Snakeweed(noun)

    the Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot

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