beggarweed
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ərˌwid noun
1.
any of various tick trefoils, especially Desmodium tortuosum, grown for forage in subtropical regions.
2.
Chiefly British. any weed that impoverishes soil.
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| —n | |
| See also tick trefoil any of various leguminous plants of the genus Desmodium, esp D. purpureum of the Caribbean, grown in the southern US as forage plants and to improve the soil | |
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Beggarweed
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example sentences
Some native legumes include butterfly pea, beggarweed, and lespedeza.
Fire favors plants such as partridge pea, beggarweed, other legumes and runner oak.
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