galinsoga

American  

[gal-in-soh-guh] / ˌgæl ɪnˈsoʊ gə /

noun

1. any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Galinsoga, especially G. ciliata or G. parviflora, having small flower heads with short, sparse white rays.

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Etymology

Origin of galinsoga

< New Latin (1794), after Mariano M. de Galinsoga, Spanish botanist

Example Sentences

Where bare earth stood, the bindweed sprout is a foot high, the purslane a foot across and the galinsoga putting out its first flowers.

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I was tugging chickweed in early May, only to find the emergence of galinsoga.

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Chickweed is a weed of winter, galinsoga one of summer.

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This is the nub of the May problem; it is a confused month that at our latitude doesn’t know whether it’s chickweed or galinsoga, wren or hummingbird, spring or summer.

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I am in a constant tug of war with seedlings of purslane and galinsoga.

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