niggerweed
niggerweed noun: synonym of feverweed (“the plant Eupatorium purpureum”).
Noun
niggerweed (uncountable)
- Synonym of feverweed (“the plant Eupatorium purpureum”).
- Among the most injurious of our native weeds are nut grass, spiny aster, western dock, pignut, sunflower, cocklebur, horse nettle and niggerweed; while there are a half score of others nearly if not quite as injurious in special localities.1897, James William Toumey, Something about Weeds, page 5
- […] niggerweed. The plant […] grows rapidly during the heat of late summer on the drier soils over much of the valley and foothill land of California and northward into Oregon […]1931, Bulletin, California Agricultural Experiment Station, page 23
- Synonyms:
- feverweed
Synonyms of niggerweed
Questions about niggerweed
- What does niggerweed mean?
- Niggerweed means synonym of feverweed (“the plant Eupatorium purpureum”).
- What part of speech is niggerweed?
- Niggerweed is a noun.
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