cancer weed

1. 1.

   sage of eastern United States

   SynonymscancerweedSalvia lyrata

   Broadersage

Questions about cancer weed

What does cancer weed mean?

cancer weed means "sage of eastern United States".

What is another word for cancer weed?

Close synonyms include cancerweed, Salvia lyrata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cancer weed a common word?

cancer weed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.