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locoweed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
lo-coweed
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several plants indigenous to the western United States, of genus Oxytropis or Astragalus.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Spanish loco (“mad, insane”) + weed.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

locoweeds (plural) loco weed (alternative) loco-weed (alternative)

Derived Forms

locoed locoism

Phrases

fish locoweed locoweed disease loco disease

Synonyms

crazyweed loco astragal astragalus oxytrope pot grass green goddess dope weed gage sess

Questions

What does locoweed mean?
Any of several plants indigenous to the western United States, of genus Oxytropis or Astragalus.
Where does locoweed come from?
It is traced to Spanish.

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