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pukeweed

pukeweed noun: a flowering plant of species Lobelia inflata.

Noun

pukeweed (uncountable)

  1. A flowering plant of species Lobelia inflata.

Synonyms of pukeweed

Origin of pukeweed

From puke + weed, from its use as an emetic.

Questions about pukeweed

What does pukeweed mean?
Pukeweed means a flowering plant of species Lobelia inflata.
What part of speech is pukeweed?
Pukeweed is a noun.

Words near pukeweed in the dictionary

  1. pukestains
  2. puketastic
  3. Pukeuri
  4. pukewad
  5. pukewads
  6. pukeweed
  7. pukeworthy
  8. pukey
  9. pukhoor
  10. Pukhrambam
  11. Pukhto

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