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Hawkweed   Listen
noun
Hawkweed  n.  (Bot.)
(a)
A plant of the genus Hieracium; so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision.
(b)
A plant of the genus Senecio (Senecio hieracifolius).






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"Hawkweed" Quotes from Famous Books



... mouse ear hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella), flavoured with thyme and honey. This is really effective, like other "yarbs" that used to ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge

... across a moor, thin and sweet now, and sunlit as the light curled clouds that it carried overhead through the profound June blue. Acres upon acres of pale sward, sown all over with the blue of scabious and the lemon-yellow of hawkweed, stretched away in rolling undulations like the plain of the sea; dense woods hung massed on the far horizon, beech-woods, sapphire blue beyond the pale silver and amber, of the middle distance, and under them a puff of white smoke from a passing train, or was it the white ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde



Words linked to "Hawkweed" :   Hieracium, Pilosella officinarum, genus Hieracium, yellow hawkweed, genus Pilosella, Hieracium pilocella, mouse-ear hawkweed, orange hawkweed, herbaceous plant, rattlesnake weed, herb, Hieracium venosum



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