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hogweed

[ UK /hˈɒɡwiːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers

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  • In the boggy areas, buttercups, hogweed, long tall grasses and rich green reeds filled every available inch of land and mire. FALLEN WOMEN
  • Hogweed, pale pink valerian and festoons of bedstraw line a lane and frame distant views of Hawk's Tor, up on the edge of Bodmin Moor above the Lynher river. Country diary: North Hill, Cornwall
  • The oil of the hogweed, the echites putescens, the sarina plant, the yellow amaranth, and the leaf of the nymphae, if applied to the body, has the same effect. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
  • In the words of Charles O'Neill, coordinator of the Cornell Invasive Species Program, hogweed is like "Queen Anne's lace with an attitude.
  • Trees and tall hogweed-type plants loomed out of the freezing fog.
  • June 22nd, 2006 at 12: 37 am hogweed says: ittakesavillage wrote: Marriage inherently is discriminatory. Think Progress » Religious Right Seeks Unprecedented Constitutional Convention To Ban Gay Marriage Without Congress
  • Gatherings of flies on the tall, white plate flowers of hogweed; burnet moths swinging on the yellow, sweetly scented lady's bedstraw; soldier beetles copulating wildly on their grass stems: these creatures were drawn to plants as places, to be inhabited by animal passions. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
  • He warned that alien species often spread into the wild and become pests, like rhododendron and giant hogweed, that will cost millions to get rid of in the future.
  • Hogweed, pale pink valerian and festoons of bedstraw line a lane and frame distant views of Hawk's Tor, up on the edge of Bodmin Moor above the Lynher river. Country diary: North Hill, Cornwall
  • ‘Where hogweeds have established themselves, their aggressive growth and large size mean they rapidly out-compete our native plant species,’ Barratt said.
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