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Definition of Smartweed
1. n. An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (P. Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
Definition of Smartweed
1. Noun. Any of more than a dozen species of the genus Polygonum. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smartweed
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Smartweed
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Smartweed
Literary usage of Smartweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Among the Moths and Butterflies: A Revised and Enlarged Edition of "Insect by Julia Perkins Ballard (1902)
"THE 'smartweed CATERPILLAR. « ON the 25th of May, 1878, a bright-colored caterpillar,
which I had found on the smartweed, made a cocoon. It was very thin, ..."
2. Report of the Illinois State Entomologist Concerning Operations Under the by Illinois State Entomologist (1905)
"162, a) one and a fourth to one and a half inches long, black, striped and spotted
with yellowish, especially common on smartweed and willow but also ..."
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