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[syn: Joe-Pye weed, purple boneset, trumpet weed, marsh milkweed, Eupatorium purpureum]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Joe-Pye weed \Joe`-Pye" weed`\ (Bot.)
A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (Eupatorium
purpureum), with purplish flowers, and whorled leaves.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Trumpetweed \Trump"et*weed`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum),
often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers
in small corymbed heads.
(b) The sea trumpet.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Eupatorium purpureum
n 1: North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal
clusters of flowers spotted with purple [syn: Joe-Pye
weed, purple boneset, trumpet weed, marsh milkweed,
Eupatorium purpureum]