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Definition of Hawkweeds
1. hawkweed [n] - See also: hawkweed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkweeds
Literary usage of Hawkweeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"hawkweeds. A genus of about one hundred and fifty perennial herbs, with many
unequal involucral bracts. Florets all strap-shaped, yellow or orange. ..."
2. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"Several of the hawkweeds are cultivated for ornament by the gardeners ; but we
have not seen that either of them has been ever used in medicine. ..."
3. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1902)
"The admirable set of British hawkweeds issued by Messrs. Linton, exhibiting almost
a complete series of British forms carefully collected and mounted, ..."
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