ragweed
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ragweed
- /ˈɹæɡˌwid/ US
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Alteration of earlier ragwort; presumably equivalent to ragged + weed, with "rag" referring to the tattered appearance of the plant's leaves.
Compare Middle English ragwed (“butcher's broom”), of uncertain linguistic relationship.
noun ragweeds
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A plant of the genus Ambrosia, native to North America and a common invasive species elsewhere, particularly noted for producing pollen that triggers hay fever.
Fig. 1.—Spiculated pollens of ragweeds (ambrosias) low in protein. […] In the cocklebur (Xanthium americanum) and the rough wild elder (Iva ciliata), the spicules are shorter, being 0.7 and 0.5 microns, and the reaction is proportionately less active than with the ragweeds (ambrosias). […] While the
Similar: ambrosia
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Synonym of ragwort.
The fields, being rough and stony, and wholly unfit for the plough, were mostly devoted to the pasturing of sheep and cattle; […] and in many of the inclosures, ragweeds and rushes usurped supremacy over the scanty herbage : but these were not my property.
Similar: ragwort
- A summer cypress, mock cypress (Bassia scoparia).
Translations
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noun plant of the genus Ambrosia
| 日本語 | 豚草 butakusa |
|---|---|
| Français | ambroisie, herbe à poux |
| Deutsch | Ambrosie, Traubenkraut, Beifußblättrige Ambrosie, Beifußblättriges Traubenkraut |
| Русский | амбро́зия ambrózija |
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