Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tropical Asian annual herb (Abutilon theophrasti) that has large velvety heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers and is cultivated in China for fiber. It is a widely naturalized weed in North America and Europe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A downy-leafed tropical vine, Cissampelos Pareira, furnishing a medicinal root. See
pareira . - noun See
Lavatera . - noun In the United States, the Indian mallow, Abutilon Avicennæ, an annual plant with downy heart-shaped leaves. Sometimes called
American jute . Seejute .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the
Abutilon Avicennæ , theCissampelos Pareira , and theLavatera arborea , and even the common mullein.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A tall
Asian herb , Abutilon theophrasti, that hasvelvety heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States
- noun tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States
- noun arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States
- noun tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States
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Cahill and his team used a tiny camera inserted through a Plexiglas tube in the bottom of the garden pot to watch a common agricultural weed, called velvetleaf, spread its roots through the soil.
Dose.ca Music briefs Elise Stolte 2010
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Your mystery plant is very pretty… the leaves look a bit like velvetleaf, which I think is in the abutilon/malva family.
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Among species characteristic of this habitat are Russian thistle, cocklebur, witchgrass, inland Sea Rocket and velvetleaf.
Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio 2007
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Ignite also controls Palmer amaranth, woolly cupgrass, velvetleaf, cocklebur, foxtails, ragweeds and waterhemp, along with ALS-resistant and glyphosate-resistant weeds, according to Bayer.
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In addition, Flexstar GT will control morningglory and velvetleaf, which tend to be tough ones for glyphosate alone.
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Flexstar GT not only controls the same annual weeds as glyphosate, but also several glyphosate - and ALS-resistant broadleaf weeds such as Palmer amaranth, waterhemp and ragweed plus those weeds difficult to control with glyphosate alone such as morningglory and velvetleaf.
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Effects of fluometuron on photosynthesis, respiration and ultrastructure of developing velvetleaf seedlings
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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