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Definition of Mayweeds
1. mayweed [n] - See also: mayweed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mayweeds
Literary usage of Mayweeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"The modern farmer rides his "self binder" through the grain fields and doesn't
curse the mayweeds as did the men who had to "cradle the wheat" and bind it ..."
2. The Principles of Agriculture: A Text-book for Schools and Rural Societies by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1909)
"mayweeds ever be useful in orchards late in the season? Why should they not be
allowed to grow early in the season? What are the disadvantages of allowing ..."
3. The Rational Method in Reading: An Original Presentation of Sight and Sound by Edward Gendar Ward, Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner, William Landon Felter, Mary Anna Ward (1903)
"She reached the country; the road was dusty, The mayweeds bitter and white, Yet
under their shade her way she made ..."
4. Nippur: Or, Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates by John Punnett Peters (1897)
"... or something like it; two yellow mayweeds (one rayless), some fleshy
caryophyllaceae, several crucifera;, and a little weed like a polygonum, ..."
5. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1915)
"Hawkweeds, thistles, mayweeds—where shall we stop with the Compositae? But after
all they do not comprise the entire August flora. As beautiful as anything ..."
6. The Rational Method in Reading: An Original Presentation of Sight and Sound by Edward Gendar Ward, Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner, William Landon Felter, Mary Anna Ward (1903)
"She reached the country; the road was dusty, The mayweeds bitter and white, Yet
under their shade her way she made ..."
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