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Ragweed n. (Bot.) 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.

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"Ragweed" Quotes from Famous Books

... rewarding companionship; besides, I might meet William; and, straying out presently, I found the hoe by the well-house and an old splint basket at the woodshed door, and also found my way down to the field where there was a great square patch of rough, weedy potato-tops and tall ragweed. One corner was already dug, and I chose a fat-looking hill where the tops were well withered. There is all the pleasure that one can have in gold-digging in finding one's hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes. I longed to go on; but it did not seem frugal to dig any longer ...

— The Country of the Pointed Firs • Sarah Orne Jewett

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... warm weather came, and it was not wonderful to us that Jenny was willing to remain. It was very quiet; we called one another to the window if a large dog went by our door; and whole days passed without the movement of any wheels but the butcher's upon our street, which flourished in ragweed and butter-cups and daisies, and in the autumn burned, like the borders of nearly all the streets in Charlesbridge, with the pallid azure flame of the succory. The neighborhood was in all things a frontier between city and country. The ...

— Suburban Sketches • W.D. Howells

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Words linked to "Ragweed" : great ragweed, Senecio jacobaea, Ambrosia trifida, ragweed pollen, genus Ambrosia, common ragweed, false ragweed, tansy ragwort, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, ragwort, Senecio, genus Senecio, bitterweed, Ambrosia psilostachya, western ragweed, ambrosia