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Definition of Fanweed
1. Noun. Foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America.
Group relationships: Genus Thlaspi, Thlaspi
Generic synonyms: Pennycress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fanweed
Literary usage of Fanweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review (1844)
"The young rogue (he was not more than ten years old) disappeared in the bush,
and returned in a few seconds with some strips of fanweed, a few small pebbles ..."
2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
""Penny-cress" appears to refer to the round seed-pods and "fanweed" may be derived
from the same source. How the name of "French- weed" came to be applied ..."
3. Jamaica: Its Past and Present State by Phillippo, James Mursell (1843)
"The young rogue (he was not more than ten years old) disappeared in the bush,
and returned in a few seconds with some strips of fanweed, a few small pebbles ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Soil Conservation Service, Montana Agricultural Experiment Station (1915)
"... fanweed (Thlaspi arvense). Annual and winter annual. In the higher, moister
valleys this is one of the worst enemies of the western grain farmer. ..."
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