Pipeweed

Quick meaning: Pipeweed is a noun meaning (smoking) Tobacco prepared for smoking in a pipe; also, the leaves of herbs or other plants prepared for such use.

Meaning

(smoking) Tobacco prepared for smoking in a pipe; also, the leaves of herbs or other plants prepared for such use.

More Meanings

1. Any of a number of plants having thin and straight stems resembling pipes, often hollow or lacking branches.
2. The redrattle (Pedicularis flammea), a parasitic plant having hollow stems.
3. A type of seaweed with tubelike fronds; especially the sea lettuce (Ulva intestinalis).
4. An unidentified sessile marine invertebrate, probably a soft coral or sponge.

Example Sentences

Fistulária […] Pipe-vveed; ſo called becauſe its ſtalk is hollovv.

I took the pipe and sniffed. Pipeweed had the aroma of the finest Moroccan Mauve. I inhaled. It was strong stuff.

Equisetaceæ rivalled "the mast of some great ammiral," in localities where they dwarfed representatives, the horse-tail and pipe-weed of our bogs, stand only a few inches high.

U. diaphana. Transparent Ulva—Pipe-weed. Occasionally cast up on the beach at Seaton. Some authors call this substance, Alcyonium gelatinosum, and others Alcyonium diaphanum. It has much the appearance of an animal production.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pipewood, pipewort, briar, briarwood, briar-root, pigweed.

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