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; 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

The orange cone-flowers purple-bossed are there, The meadow's bold-eyed gypsies deep of hue, And slender hawkweed tall and softly fair, And rosy tops of fleabane veiled with dew.

From Lyrics of Earth by Lampman, Archibald

A boy, about seven years old, was leading a kid by a chain, letting it crop the flowers of the hawkweed in the grass.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various