rheumatism weed

Questions about rheumatism weed

What does rheumatism weed mean?

rheumatism weed means "Canadian dogbane yielding a tough fiber used as cordage by Native Americans; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for rheumatism weed?

Close synonyms include Indian hemp, Apocynum cannabinum, common dogbane, spreading dogbane, Apocynum androsaemifolium. 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 rheumatism weed a common word?

rheumatism 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.