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CRAZY WEED

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock

Synonyms:

crazy weed; crazyweed; locoweed

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("crazy weed" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crazy weed"):

Oxytropis lambertii; purple loco; purple locoweed (tufted locoweed of southwestern United States having purple or pink to white flowers)

Holonyms ("crazy weed" is a member of...):

genus Oxytropis; Oxytropis (large widely-distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and racemose or spicate flowers each having a pea-like corolla with a clawed petal)

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