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butterweed

butterweed noun: any of various herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Conyza or Erigeron.

butterweed: any of various herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Conyza or Erigeron
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Noun

butterweed (countable and uncountable, plural butterweeds)

  1. Any of various herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Conyza or Erigeron.

Forms of butterweed

pluralbutterweeds

Origin of butterweed

From butter + weed.

Questions about butterweed

What does butterweed mean?
Butterweed means any of various herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Conyza or Erigeron.
What part of speech is butterweed?
Butterweed is a noun.
What is the plural of butterweed?
The plural of butterweed is butterweeds.

Words near butterweed in the dictionary

  1. butterspoon
  2. butterspoon tree
  3. butterspoon trees
  4. butterspoons
  5. Butterton
  6. butterweed
  7. butterweeds
  8. Butterwick
  9. Butterwicks
  10. butterwoman
  11. butterwomen

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