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Definition of Neckweed
1. n. An American annual weed (veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod.
Definition of Neckweed
1. Noun. An American annual weed (''Veronica peregrina''), with small white flowers and a roundish pod. ¹
2. Noun. (humorous archaic) The hemp plant, which furnishes ropes for hanging criminals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Neckweed
1. hemp [n -S] - See also: hemp
Medical Definition of Neckweed
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Neckweed
Literary usage of Neckweed
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)
"This plant was named "neckweed" when it and other members of its family were
considered good remedies for the scrofulous sores that often appeared on the ..."
2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Veronica peregrina L. ssp. peregrina neckweed; Purslane speedwell Herbaceous
annual Open woods, alluvial banks, gardens and waste ground. ..."
3. The Indiana Weed Book by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1912)
"neckweed. (AN 2.) Stem erect or ascending, glabrous, simple or branched, ...
April-Oct. The name neckweed was given it from its formerly being ..."
4. Flora Cestrica: An Herborizing Companion for the Young Botanists of Chester by William Darlington (1853)
"It was, at one time, supposed to possess medicinal virtues, in scrofulous
affections, — which acquired for it the name of ti neckweed." 8. ..."
5. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1861)
"... hempseed and a plaster of neckweed, as well as some of your brethren the
papists " I care not now an I leave Mass Dean's worship, and be eloquent once ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"Cant name for hemp— also called neckweed. There is an herbe whiche light fellowes
merily will call ..."
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