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Fireweed

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Noun

1. epilobium angustifolium, fireweed, giant willowherb, rosebay willowherb, wickup

tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant

2. erechtites hieracifolia, fireweed

an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Fireweed

see synonyms of fireweed
noun
1. 
any of various plants that appear as first vegetation in burnt-over areas, esp rosebay willowherb
2. Also called: pilewort
a weedy North American plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having small white or greenish flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
3. 
an Australian rainforest tree, Stenocarpus sinuatus, having whorls of bright red flowers

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Fireweed

see synonyms of fireweed
noun
any of a number of plants that grow readily on cleared or burned-over land; esp., a species (Epilobium angustifolium) of willow herb, with purplish-red flowers

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Fireweed

see synonyms of fireweed
n.
1. Any of various plants of the genus Epilobium, especially E. angustifolium (syn. Chamerion angustifolium), having long, terminal, spikelike clusters of pinkish-purple flowers. Also called willow herb.
2. Any of several weedy North American plants of the genus Erechtites in the composite family, having small white or greenish flowers grouped in discoid heads.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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