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Definition of Fireweed
1. Noun. 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.
Group relationships: Epilobium, Genus Epilobium
Generic synonyms: Willowherb
2. Noun. An American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers.
Definition of Fireweed
1. n. An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.
Definition of Fireweed
1. Noun. A perennial herbaceous plant (''Epilobium angustifolium'') in the willowherb family ''Onagraceae''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fireweed
1. a perennial herb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Fireweed
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fireweed
Literary usage of Fireweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1893)
"WHITE VARIETY OF THE fireweed.—While out camping among the Laurentian hills near
Cap-a-1'Aigle, Que., last August, I came across two specimens of the common ..."
2. Leaves from Rosedale by Charlotte Beaumont Jarvis (1905)
"fireweed CLEAR through the woodland a relentless fire Had swept, like Destiny,
and left it bare; Now o'er the scene of Death and ravage dire, ..."
3. Settler's Guide and Farmer's Handbook by Western Australia Dept. of Agriculture, L. Lindley-Cowen (1897)
"... (Horseweed ; butterweed ; fireweed).— A bristly, hairy, erect, wand-like,
annual composite, with numerous linear, mostly entire, leaves, ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1887)
"Pure natural oil of fireweed, unless resinous (which may be noted by leaving a
stain upon paper when evaporated), should not possess a sp. gr. above .855, ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1888)
"No similar compound could be obtained from the oil of fireweed supplied by Mr.
Todd.—Amer. Drugg., Aug. 1887, 152. Oil of fireweed ..."
6. Pharmaceutical and Food Analysis: A Manual of Standard Methods for the by Azor Thurston (1922)
"Fractional distillation of fireweed oil in the same manner gave for the ...
Oil of fireweed and oil of turpentine appear to be the chief adulterants of ..."
7. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1875)
"The fireweed has been proven, but not very thoroughly. Sufficient symptoms have
been obtained to give us a clue to its method of action. ..."
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