Definition of "hogweed" [hog•weed]

• Any of certain coarse weedy plants of the genera Ambrosia, Erigeron, or Heracleum. (noun)

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• ""It's a very exciting time as chefs are rediscovering forgotten ingredients like woodruff, as well a new ones such as hogweed seeds that we appear not to have cooked with, despite them being delicious.""
• "Hence why, 12 hours later, I'm learning to pick nettles, hogweed, and rosebay willowherbs in a thicket on Hampstead Heath."
• "This is hogweed—you can use the flower buds, the stems and the leaf."