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knopweed

knopweed is the archaic form of knapweed.

Meaning of knapweed

Noun

knapweed (countable and uncountable, plural knapweeds)

  1. Any of various common weeds of, or formerly of, the genus Centaurea.
    • Near-synonym: hardhead
    Synonyms:
    hardhead
    1. Centaurea nigra.
    2. Rhaponticum repens.
    3. Centaurea calcitrapa.

Questions about knopweed

What is knopweed the archaic form of?
Knopweed is the archaic form of knapweed.

Words near knopweed in the dictionary

  1. knoppie spider
  2. Knopps
  3. knoppy
  4. knops
  5. Knopsnider
  6. knopweed
  7. knor
  8. knorhaan
  9. knorhaans
  10. knork
  11. knorks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knopweed (page history and authors); knapweed (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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