ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hogweed

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Hogweed is a noun meaning Any coarse weedy herb.

Meaning

Any coarse weedy herb.

More Meanings

  1. An umbelliferous plant, of genus Heracleum, most species of which are phototoxic.
  2. Certain plants from the genera Ambrosia, Erigeron, or Heracleum.

Example Sentences

I see the tall not-weeds with white flowers up close. Don’t touch, don’t touch those. Hogweed, it will burn.
“I will bewitch them with flea-bane, blister them with hog-weed,” he said, vainly looking for a suitable spell.

Word Forms

Synonyms for hogweed

Depending on context, synonyms include pigweed, clogweed, cadweed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grassweed, horseweed, tarweed, hawkweed, blackweed, greenweed.

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