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ironweed

[ UK /ˈa‍ɪ‍ənwiːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue

How To Use ironweed In A Sentence

  • Gwynne had the title knocking around in his brain for years and didn't know what to do with it, until he passed it on to his IRONWEED costar. Fred Gwynne, where are you?
  • A keen botanical eye might also have picked out pepperweed, yellow woodsorrel, soapwort, horseweed, ironweed, black nightshade, sheep sorrel, curly dock, and small eyebane.
  • The book is a new installment in what the author dubbed the Albany Cycle, a series that includes "Ironweed" and "Billy Phelan" and that began in 1975 with "Legs," a novel about the Gatsby-esque rise and fall of Prohibition rumrunner Jack Diamond. Corruption on the Hudson
  • The pasture was flooded with light; every clump of ironweed and snow-on-the-mountain threw a long shadow, and the golden light seemed to be rippling through the curly grass like the tide racing in. O Pioneers!
  • Even the Vardaloon's many flowers --- the snakeroot and ironweed, the baneberry and wild ginger --- brought us no cheer. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
  • I love the ironweed seed heads and fothergilla is my hands-down favorite shrub for fall color. Dying Well-Aging Attractively « Fairegarden
  • In the clear evening a wagon sped along towards the east, through the saffron marshes, tramping down the stickweed and ironweed and the golden rod, and, while the people in it cowered close, the negro driver sang, as carelessly as if he was the lord of the country: The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
  • The wild flowers disappeared, and only in the bottom of the draws and gullies grew a few of the very toughest and hardiest: shoestring, and ironweed, and snow-on-the-mountain. O Pioneers!
  • A keen botanical eye might also have picked out pepperweed, yellow woodsorrel, soapwort, horseweed, ironweed, black nightshade, sheep sorrel, curly dock, and small eyebane.
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