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trumpetweed

trumpetweed noun: any of the joe-pye weeds, herbaceous composite plants of genus Eutrochium, often having hollow stems, bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads, native to eastern North America.

Noun

trumpetweed (uncountable)

  1. Any of the joe-pye weeds, herbaceous composite plants of genus Eutrochium, often having hollow stems, bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads, native to eastern North America.
  2. Ecklonia buccinalis (seaweed)

Origin of trumpetweed

From trumpet + weed.

Questions about trumpetweed

What does trumpetweed mean?
Trumpetweed means any of the joe-pye weeds, herbaceous composite plants of genus Eutrochium, often having hollow stems, bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads, native to eastern North America.
What part of speech is trumpetweed?
Trumpetweed is a noun.

Words near trumpetweed in the dictionary

  1. trumpets
  2. trumpets marine
  3. trumpets of the dead
  4. Trumpette
  5. Trumpettes
  6. trumpetweed
  7. trumpetwood
  8. trumpety
  9. Trumpflation
  10. Trumpfluencer
  11. Trumpfluencers

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