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Fireweed

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Noun
  1. 1
    A perennial herbaceous plant (Epilobium angustifolium or Chamaenerion angustifolium) in the willowherb family Onagraceae. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of the flowering plants of the genus Erechtites. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant wordnet

Etymology

From fire + weed. The fire-part may be of same origin as eld-part in dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk eldmerke (“fireweed”).

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