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mayweed

mayweed noun: stinking chamomile (Anthemis cotula).

Noun

mayweed (plural mayweeds)

  1. stinking chamomile (Anthemis cotula).
  2. corn chamomile, field chamomile (Anthemis arvensis).
  3. Plants of the genera Matricaria and Tripleurospermum.
  4. A mayflower.

Forms of mayweed

pluralmayweeds

Origin of mayweed

From Middle English *maythe weed, equivalent to maythe (“mayweed”) + weed; reanalysed as May + weed.

Words formed from mayweed

Questions about mayweed

What does mayweed mean?
Mayweed means stinking chamomile (Anthemis cotula).
What part of speech is mayweed?
Mayweed is a noun.
What is the plural of mayweed?
The plural of mayweed is mayweeds.

Words near mayweed in the dictionary

  1. Mayvillian
  2. mayvin
  3. mayvins
  4. Mayweather
  5. Mayweathers
  6. mayweed
  7. mayweeds
  8. Maywood
  9. Mayyun
  10. May–December
  11. maza

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