ragweed
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1. any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | weed, |
| definition | : | any plant that crowds out cultivated plants (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | ambrosia artemisiifolia, common ragweed, |
| definition | : | annual weed with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers; common in North America; introduced elsewhere accidentally (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus ambrosia, |
| definition | : | comprising the ragweeds; in some classification considered the type genus of a separate family Ambrosiaceae (noun.plant) |
2. widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | weed, |
| definition | : | any plant that crowds out cultivated plants (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus senecio, senecio, |
| definition | : | enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds (noun.plant) |
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