wormseed

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Noun

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worm=seed

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun wormseed has 1 sense

wormseed(n = noun.plant) american wormseed, chenopodium ambrosioides, mexican tea, spanish tea - rank-smelling tropical American pigweed; Array

is a kind of goosefoot

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CIDE DICTIONARY

wormseed, n.

Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. [1913 Webster]

Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant (Erysinum cheiranthoides) having small lanceolate leaves.

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