napweed

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A form of knapweed — Any of various common weeds of, or formerly of, the genus Centaurea.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounnapweed (countable and uncountable, plural napweeds)

plural napweeds

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of knapweed

    “What on earth did you put in that stuff?” “Bug-bane, barren-wort, penny-cress and blood-root, catchfly, toad-flax, nap-weed and wormwood,” said Catweazle.

    1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 177
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