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Definition of "hawkweed" [hawk•weed]

  • Any of numerous often hairy plants of the genus Hieracium, having yellow or orange dandelionlike flower heads. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "hawkweed" in a sentence
  • "Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub."
  • "And whole hells of buttercups and yellow hawkweed and a few more orange hawkweed."
  • "Buttercups and yellow hawkweed and lupines in full cry."
Words like "hawkweed"
Allegheny hawkweed
alpine hawkweed
Arctic hawkweed
blackstyle hawkweed
Bolander's hawkweed
boreal hawkweed
butterfly hawkweed
Canadian hawkweed
common hawkweed
cow hawkweed
Devold's hawkweed
Greenland hawkweed
hairy hawkweed
hawkweed-leaved saxifrage
herb herbaceous plant