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Definition of Great ragweed
1. Noun. A coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleft.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Ragweed
Literary usage of Great ragweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"... may well pause a moment among the skeleton thickets of the great ragweed, in
its perfection the tallest of our weeds. One April, a few years since, ..."
2. Sharp Eyes: A Rambler's Calendar of [fifty-two] Weeks Among Insects, Birds by William Hamilton Gibson (1900)
"... the skeleton thickets of the great ragweed, in its perfection the tallest of
our weeds. One April, a few years since, I found a stalk ..."
3. Hayfever and Asthma: Care, Prevention and Treatment by William Scheppegrell (1922)
"The great ragweed (Ambrosia ... In Arizona, some of the ragweeds are found, these
being the "great ragweed" (not Ambrosia ..."
4. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science by Robley Dunglison (1856)
"... great ragweed, Wild Hemp. This indigenous plant is found in low grounds and
along streams, from Canada to Georgia, ..."
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