horseweed

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From horse +‎ weed.

Noun

horseweed (countable and uncountable, plural horseweeds)

1. Any of various flowering plants of the genus Conyza.
2. A plant of the species Cichorium intybus
3. A plant of the species Ambrosia trifida.

Synonyms

(Cichorium intybus):

• common chicory
• wild chicory
• common succory, wild succory (archaic)
• Italian dandelion
• witloof
• Belgian endive
• French endive
• horseweed
• garden endive
• wild endive
• blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailor, blue weed
• coffeeweed
• cornflower, ragged sailor, succory
• wild bachelor's button / wild bachelor's-button, chicory button

Coordinate terms

• goatweed
• hogweed
• pigweed

 

Translations

a flowering plant of a number of the genus Conyza

See also

• assweed

 

Anagrams

• shoreweed