Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given to several rubiaceous plants belonging to the genera Spermacoce, Diodia, and Borreria.
- noun The knapweed, Centaurea nigra.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
plants of thegenera Spermacoce and Diodia, of themadder family.
Etymologies
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Examples
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New York stock trading can be traced to 1792, when traders first made a deal under a buttonweed tree on Wall Street.
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New York stock trading can be traced to 1792, when traders first made a deal under a buttonweed tree on Wall Street.
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New York stock trading can be traced to 1792, when traders first made a deal under a buttonweed tree on Wall Street.
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Has he ever discovered those deceptive creatures which pretend for all the world to be leaves of lady's-bedstraw, or dress themselves up as flowers of buttonweed?
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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Virginia buttonweed spreads by seed and plant segments.
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Re: E-mail Q: Help with lawn weeds? it looks like Virginia buttonweed. pull what you can.
chron.com Chronicle 2009
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