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BENWEED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity
Synonyms:
benweed; ragweed; ragwort; Senecio jacobaea; tansy ragwort
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("benweed" is a kind of...):
weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)
Holonyms ("benweed" is a member of...):
genus Senecio; Senecio (enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds)