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hog⋅weed

  [hawg-weed, hog-]
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–noun
1. any coarse weed with composite flower heads, esp. the cow parsnip.
2. giant hogweed.
Origin:
1700–10; hog + weed 1
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hog·weed   (hôg'wēd', hŏg'-)   
n.  Any of certain coarse weedy plants of the genera Ambrosia, Erigeron, or Heracleum.
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hogweed 
1707, from hog + weed, used in different places of various plants eaten by hogs or deemed fit only for them.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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