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Definition of Stickweed
1. Noun. Any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing.
Definition of Stickweed
1. Noun. Any of various unrelated plants that have seeds that stick to clothing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stickweed
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stickweed
Literary usage of Stickweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Occurance of Aluminium in Vegetable Products, Animal Products, and by Charles Ford Langworthy, Peter Townsend Austen (1904)
"gives figures for the ash analysis of stickweed (Verbesina sieges- ... No analyses
of stickweed appear in the original publication. ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Woods and thickets, Nova Scotia to Minnesota, North Carolina and California.
Roots fibrous. Feverfew. Beggar's-ticks. Cockle-bur. stickweed. ' 2267. ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1907)
"stickweed. The fruit of this plant gets into the wool and sometimes produces
chanical injuries. 223. Echium vulgare, L. Viper's Bugloss. ..."
4. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1907)
"stickweed. The fruit of this plant gets into the wool and sometimes produces ' » "*-
chanical injuries. 223. Echium vulgäre, L. Viper's Bugloss. ..."
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