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rattleweed

rattleweed noun: any plant of the genus Astragalus. of milkvetches.

Noun

rattleweed (countable and uncountable, plural rattleweeds)

  1. Any plant of the genus Astragalus. of milkvetches.
    Synonyms:
    milkvetch, locoweed
  2. Cobwebby wild indigo (Baptisia arachnifera), an endangered legume native to the United States.
  3. Fremont’s leather flower (Clematis fremontii), a flowering plant in the buttercup family found in the United States.
  4. Rattlepod (Crotalaria retusa), a flowering legume native to tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia.
  5. Desert senna (Senna covesii), a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico.
  6. Black cohosh (Actaea racemosa)
    Synonyms:
    rattleroot

Synonyms of rattleweed

Forms of rattleweed

pluralrattleweeds

Origin of rattleweed

From rattle + weed.

Questions about rattleweed

What does rattleweed mean?
Rattleweed means any plant of the genus Astragalus. of milkvetches.
What part of speech is rattleweed?
Rattleweed is a noun.
What is the plural of rattleweed?
The plural of rattleweed is rattleweeds.

Words near rattleweed in the dictionary

  1. rattlest
  2. rattleth
  3. rattletrap
  4. rattletraps
  5. rattlety
  6. rattleweed
  7. rattleweeds
  8. rattlewings
  9. rattlewort
  10. Rattley
  11. rattlier

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