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
- An umbelliferous plant, of genus Heracleum, most species of which are phototoxic.
- 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
- hogweeds
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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