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FIREWEED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers
Synonyms:
Erechtites hieracifolia; fireweed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fireweed" is a kind of...):
weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)
Holonyms ("fireweed" is a member of...):
genus Erechtites (coarse herbs with whitish discoid flower heads and silky pappus)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant
Synonyms:
Epilobium angustifolium; fireweed; giant willowherb; rosebay willowherb; wickup
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("fireweed" is a kind of...):
willowherb (a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs)
Holonyms ("fireweed" is a member of...):
Epilobium; genus Epilobium (large widely distributed genus of herbs and subshrubs of especially western North America and Arctic areas)
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