hawkweed

American  

[hawk-weed] / ˈhɔkˌwid /

noun

1. any composite plant of the genus Hieracium, usually bearing yellow flowers.

2. any of various related plants.

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hawkweed British  

/ ˈhɔːkˌwiːd /

noun

1. any typically hairy plant of the genus Hieracium, with clusters of dandelion-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)

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Etymology

Origin of hawkweed

1555–65; translation of New Latin, Latin hierācium < Greek hierāk, stem of hiérāx hawk + Latin -ium -ium; see weed ¹

Example Sentences

But that was changing: He pointed to butter-and-eggs, oxeye daisies, bellflowers, tufted vetch, hemp nettle, spotted jewelweed, creeping Charlie, common tansy, orange hawkweed.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2021

Wild licorice, fireweed, hawkweed, bastard toadflax and littleleaf pussytoes created a carpet underfoot.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2016

Nägeli was studying another plant—the yellow-flowering hawkweed—and he urged Mendel to try to reproduce his findings on hawkweed as well.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Six kinds of clovers and vetches; and besides, dandelion, and rattle, and oxeye, and sorrel, and plantain, and buttercup, and a little stitchwort, and pignut, and mouse-ear hawkweed, too, which nobody wants.

From Madam How and Lady Why by Kingsley, Charles

The achenes very closely resemble those of the orange hawkweed.

From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)