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KNAPWEED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("knapweed" is a kind of...):
centaury (any plant of the genus Centaurea)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "knapweed"):
slender knapweed; Jersey knapweed (a variety of knapweed)
black knapweed; Centaurea nigra; hardheads; lesser knapweed (a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized)
Centaurea scabiosa; great knapweed; greater knapweed (tall European perennial having purple flower heads)
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