Word.ws English Dictionary

wireweed

wireweed noun: any member of the genus Polygonella, now included in genus Polygonum of knotweeds and smartweeds, especially Polygonella articulata, now Polygonum articulatum.

Noun

wireweed (uncountable)

  1. Any member of the genus Polygonella, now included in genus Polygonum of knotweeds and smartweeds, especially Polygonella articulata, now Polygonum articulatum.
    Synonyms:
    jointweed

Synonyms of wireweed

Origin of wireweed

From wire + weed.

Questions about wireweed

What does wireweed mean?
Wireweed means any member of the genus Polygonella, now included in genus Polygonum of knotweeds and smartweeds, especially Polygonella articulata, now Polygonum articulatum.
What part of speech is wireweed?
Wireweed is a noun.

Words near wireweed in the dictionary

  1. wirewalking
  2. wirewater
  3. wirewaters
  4. wireway
  5. wireways
  6. wireweed
  7. wirework
  8. wireworked
  9. wireworker
  10. wireworkers
  11. wireworking

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wireweed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wireweed.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wireweed. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.