burnweed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The herb cover is very open to semiclosed, and is dominated by rough cinquefoil (Potentilla norvegica*), reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea), marsh skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora), American burnweed (Erechtites hieraciifolia), annual fleabane (Erigeron annuus subsp. annuus) and others."
- "There are also warnings of alkaloids, which burnweed contains. Eaten in sufficient quantity (but no one can tell us what that is), the plant could potentially cause harm – a warning never to ignore."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw- Proto-Indo-European *bʰrénuh₁e-? Proto-Germanic *brinnaną Proto-West Germanic *brinnan Old English biernan ▲ Proto-Germanic *brinnaną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *brannijaną Proto-West Germanic *brannijan Old English bærnan Old Norse brennabor. Middle English brennen English burn Proto-West Germanic *weud Old English wēod Middle English weed English weed English burnweed From burn + weed, describing its rapid proliferation in areas which have recently been cleared by fire.