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locoweed
[ loh-koh-weed ]
noun
- any of various leguminous plants of the genera Astragalus and Oxytropis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, causing locoism in sheep, horses, etc.
locoweed
/ 藞濒蓹蕣办蓹蕣藢飞颈藧诲 /
noun
- any of several perennial leguminous plants of the genera Oxytropis and Astragalus of W North America that cause loco disease in horses, cattle, and sheep
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Example Sentences
West Texas has rigid paintbrush, yellow rocknettle and the purple wooly locoweed.
He made an altar with cactus spines and purple locoweed flowers.
Jimsonweed, a k a Jamestown weed, mad apple, devil鈥檚 trumpet, locoweed, stinkwort or thorn apple, is a strikingly gothic-looking plant with seedpods that could have inspired the creator of 鈥淟ittle Shop of Horrors.鈥
Doc Peets informs me once when we crosses up with some locoweed over by the Cow Springs, that thar's two or three breeds of this malignant vegetable.
Why, son," he continued, "every longhorn who's ever cinched a Colorado saddle, or roped a steer, is plumb aware of locoweed.
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