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fireweed

fireweed noun: a perennial herbaceous plant (Epilobium angustifolium or Chamaenerion angustifolium) in the willowherb family Onagraceae.

Noun

fireweed (countable and uncountable, plural fireweeds)

  1. A perennial herbaceous plant (Epilobium angustifolium or Chamaenerion angustifolium) in the willowherb family Onagraceae.
    Synonyms:
    fireflower
  2. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Erechtites.

fireweed meaning in Tamil

fireweed in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Synonyms of fireweed

Forms of fireweed

pluralfireweeds

Origin of fireweed

From fire + weed. The fire-part may be of same origin as eld-part in dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk eldmerke (“fireweed”).

Questions about fireweed

What does fireweed mean?
Fireweed means a perennial herbaceous plant (Epilobium angustifolium or Chamaenerion angustifolium) in the willowherb family Onagraceae.
What is fireweed in Tamil?
Fireweed in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Fireweed meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fireweed?
Fireweed is a noun.
What is the plural of fireweed?
The plural of fireweed is fireweeds.

Words near fireweed in the dictionary

  1. firewards
  2. firewatcher
  3. firewatchers
  4. firewater
  5. firewaters
  6. fireweed
  7. fireweeds
  8. firewheel
  9. firewheel tree
  10. firewheel trees
  11. firewheels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fireweed (page history and authors); fireweed (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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