Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants that have an unpleasant odor, especially Navarretia squarrosa, an annual plant of western North America with small blue flowers.
- noun Slang Marijuana.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A low annual herb, Navarretia squarrosa, troublesome as a weed in grain and grass lands from Washington to California. Its ill odor (which suggests the common name) is damaging to the quality of the crop.
- noun Same as
skunk-cabbage .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Skunk cabbage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
American plants that have an offensiveodour , but especially Croton texensis and Polemonium viscosum - noun slang
strong -smelling cannabis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell
- noun tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell
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Examples
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Epazote, which is pronounced "eh-pah-zoe-teh" is a great staple in Mexico, but most people north pull this out of their garden because it is thought of as "skunkweed" unaware of the culinary value it
unknown title 2008
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By then the humidity had cooled, we'd lay in the skunkweed, near the burning barrel and stare up at the stars.
sense of place 2008
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No sand shifting beneath me, but sharp rocks and dirt with the faint odor of skunkweed.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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A clement breeze stirred the smell of sage, skunkweed, and hot dirt.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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No sand shifting beneath me, but sharp rocks and dirt with the faint odor of skunkweed.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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A clement breeze stirred the smell of sage, skunkweed, and hot dirt.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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I also need to work up another piece for "Detective Mac" involving smoky saxophones (it's all the skunkweed, you know.)
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"I'm wondering which I like least, the perfume our visitor left or the one your old skunkweed made."
With Trapper Jim in the North Woods Lawrence J. Leslie
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: Keep your Kentucky skunkweed, we'll keep the BC bud out here in cascadia.
Balloon Juice 2010
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The former, from a Massachuset Indian word, referred to Poke (- weed) n. 3; the latter, probably derived from a Delaware Indian term, was a name for skunkweed.
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