snakeweed
IPA: snˈeɪkwid
noun
- Any of various not closely related plants reputed to cure snakebite.
- Any of genus Gutierrezia of poisonous American plants; matchweed.
- Bistorta officinalis (common bistort).
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Examples of "snakeweed" in Sentences
- The plant's scientific name then became "Gutierrezia elegans," commonly known as Lone Mesa snakeweed.
- The pair gave the yellow flowering plant the scientific name Gutierrezia elegans and a common name Lone Mesa snakeweed.
- Schneider said he and his wife, Betty, have found 700 of the Lone Mesa snakeweed plants in a portion of the park, a small number in comparison to other well-known species.
- Round the body of the trees, planted some at their root, and some upon the different parts of the trunk, crept the withy, the snakeweed, the ivy, and the hop, and intermingled with them the jessamine and the honeysuckle, in the most unbounded profusion.
- The children have learned to identify wild edible and medicinal plants in our bioregion, helping to harvest prickly pear and banana yucca fruit each season, as well as to appreciate the healing benefits of juniper berries, snakeweed, mallow, horehound, and more.
- Beneath fields of tamarisk and prickly pear, Indian ricegrass, snakeweed, and Russian thistle, a plume of contaminated water stretched for a subterranean mile.3 The stream, half again as wide as it was long, contained about 4.5 million polluted gallons from the ore itself and the various chemicals that VCA poured through it to draw the uranium out.
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