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ˈhell-weed, ˈhellweed
A name given to certain plants, noxious as weeds, and difficult to eradicate: a. the species of Dodder (Cuscuta) parasitic on cultivated plants; b. Hedge Bindweed, Convolvulus sepium; c. Ranunculus arvensis.
1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 10 Cuscuta as it is generally called..is called of the Country people Hell-weede, because they know not how to destroy it. 1670[see devil's-guts]. 1829Glover Hist. Derby I. 109 Cuscuta europæa, greater dodder, hell weed or devil's guts. 1879Prior Plant-n., Hell-weed, dodder, so called from the trouble and ruin it causes in flax fields. |