| NOUN | plant | ragweed, ragwort, tansy ragwort, benweed, Senecio jacobaea | widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers |
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| plant | ragweed, ambrosia, bitterweed | any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma |
| Sounds | rae'gwiy.d | |
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| Rhymes | able-bodied ... worried: 105 rhymes with iyd... | |
| Meaning | widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity. | |
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| Synonyms | ragwort, tansy ragwort, benweed, Senecio jacobaea | |
| Member of | Senecio, genus Senecio | enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds |
| Broader | weed | Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants |
| Meaning | Any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma. | |
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| Synonyms | ambrosia, bitterweed | |
| Member of | genus Ambrosia | Comprising the ragweeds |
| Narrower | common ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia | annual weed with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers |
| great ragweed, Ambrosia trifida | A coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleft | |
| western ragweed, perennial ragweed, Ambrosia psilostachya | coarse perennial ragweed with creeping roots of dry barren lands of southwestern United States and Mexico | |
| Broader | weed | Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants |
| Spanish | ambrosía | |
| Catalan | ambrosia | |
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