trumpetweed
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English
Etymology
Noun
trumpetweed (uncountable)
- 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.
- The sea trumpet.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trumpetweed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)