wild buckwheat

American  

noun

1. umbrella plant.

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Etymology

Origin of wild buckwheat

First recorded in 1875–80

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Example Sentences

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wild buckwheat

Within a few feet, he stops and hunches over a weedy patch at the edge of the asphalt, where he identifies wild buckwheat, wood sorrel and chickweed.

From Washington Post

There are rules for prime farm lands, tribal government elections, gypsum wild buckwheat, car pools, surface mining, noise, personal protective devices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Certain fields under the plow are always infested with "blind nettles," others with wild buckwheat, black blindweed, or cockle.

From A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs

My business was to weigh wheat, deduct as much as possible on account of cockle, pigeon grass and wild buckwheat, and to chisel the honest farmer out of all he would stand.

From Remarks by Bill Nye

There were acres and acres of sage brush, sometimes a field of wild buckwheat and once in a while a small grove of live oak shrubs or of red and blue gum trees.

From The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Margaret O'Bannon Womack Vandercook

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