rattlesnake weed

1. 1.

   a hawkweed with a rosette of purple-veined basal leaves; Canada to northern Georgia and Kentucky

   SynonymsHieracium venosum

   Broaderhawkweed

Questions about rattlesnake weed

What does rattlesnake weed mean?

rattlesnake weed means "a hawkweed with a rosette of purple-veined basal leaves; Canada to northern Georgia and Kentucky".

What is another word for rattlesnake weed?

Close synonyms include Hieracium venosum. 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 rattlesnake weed a common word?

rattlesnake 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.