Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dodder, Cuscuta, and, in books, the broom-rape, Orobanche. Compare
strangle-tare .
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Examples
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In defense of cow parsley and primrose—but strangleweed and striga are on their own.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011
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The physician and herbalist John Gerard observed in 1597 that a pernicious crop-killer called dodder, or strangleweed, "changeth and altereth" according to its companion plants.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011
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Four centuries on, Consuelo de Moraes, a biologist at Pennsylvania State University, found that strangleweed, like a snake in the dark, could detect the scent of its prey.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011
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In defense of cow parsley and primrose—but strangleweed and striga are on their own.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011
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The physician and herbalist John Gerard observed in 1597 that a pernicious crop-killer called dodder, or strangleweed, "changeth and altereth" according to its companion plants.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011
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Four centuries on, Consuelo de Moraes, a biologist at Pennsylvania State University, found that strangleweed, like a snake in the dark, could detect the scent of its prey.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011
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