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Meanings of ragweed in English
Widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity.
Synonyms
Examples for "ambrosia"
Examples for "ambrosia"
1
Their food is ambrosia and nectar; their movements are swift as light.
2
Such nectar and ambrosia as Mrs. Judson has provided is in there.
3
He greedily drank the resulting ambrosia as she came all over him.
4
The only daze she was in was caused by chamalla and ambrosia.
5
She ate nothing but celestial ambrosia, and drank nothing but divine nectar.
Usage of ragweed in English
1
The ragweed grew everywhere it pleased, affording grand cover for the quail.
2
The decrease in skin sensitivity to ragweed was similar in both groups.
3
Background: Common ragweed has been spreading as a neophyte in Europe.
4
The common ragweed is a vegetative menace of the highest order.
5
The highest rate of airborne ragweed pollen was recorded in August and September.
6
I don't know if it even filtered ragweed, but it sold.
7
Worse yet, sumpweed is a wind-pollinated relative of ragweed, the notorious hayfever-causing plant.
8
It could be the colic or the rash or the ragweed.
9
She scatters them with lavish hand from ragweed, thistle or oak.
10
You've probably got ragweed in there, and poison oak, and bitter vetch, and-
11
But when the plant was introduced to Europe without the beetle, ragweed ran riot.
12
Her normally stylish coif resembled a field of windblown ragweed.
13
Like ragweed's, sumpweed's pollen can cause hayfever where the plant occurs in abundant stands.
14
I'd heard of people being allergic to grass, dogs and cats, ragweed, tobacco and dandelions.
15
In addition, an earlier rise in serum IgE response to ragweed occurred in the RSV-infected animals.
16
Varied geographic distributions of ragweed species raise questions regarding the need for ragweed species-specific allergen immunotherapy.
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