Lexic.us

Definition of Ragweed

1. Noun. Widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity.

2. Noun. Any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma.

Definition of Ragweed

1. n. A common American composite weed (Ambrosia artemisiæfolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed.

Definition of Ragweed

1. Noun. A plant of the genus ''Ambrosia''. These weeds are particularly noted for producing pollen which people with hay fever are allergic to. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ragweed

1. a weedy herb [n -S]

Medical Definition of Ragweed

1. A common American composite weed (Ambrosia artemisiaefolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed. Great ragweed, a coarse American herb (Ambrosia trifida), with rough three-lobed opposite leaves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragweed

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ragu raguinite raguled raguly ragus ragweed (current term) ragweed pollen ragweeds ragwheel ragwheels

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Literary usage of Ragweed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"MM August to October ragweed June to July Pollens slight Throughout year ragweed slight i Throughout year ; ragweed slight Throughout year ragweed i ..."

2. Hayfever and Asthma: Care, Prevention and Treatment by William Scheppegrell (1922)
"The patients who are affected with the grass pollens cease to suffer from hayfever, except in cases which are sensitive to both the grass and ragweed ..."

3. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"ragweed PITH April 28th STROLLER in waste places or weedy corners, either during the winter or now, before the copses are clothed in foliage, may well pause ..."

4. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The ragweed family, with six or seven native species, includes the ragweeds ... The tall ragweed, which sometimes grows fifteen feet in height in low ground ..."

5. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1892)
"It was a sight worth seeing and was obtained by simply scraping some grapes purchased for the table. ragweed.—I then took some leaves of ragweed. ..."

6. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"ragweed FAMILY. 1828. Annual or perennial herbs, monoecious, or sometimes dioecious, many of them weeds, some shrubby, with alternate leaves, ..."

7. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"ragweed FAMILY. Annual or perennial herbs, monoecious, or sometimes dioecious, many of them weeds, some shrubby, with alternate leaves, ..."

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