Definitions for fireweed

fireweed fire·weed

Spelling: [fahyuh r-weed]
IPA: /ˈfaɪərˌwid/

Fireweed is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in fireweed (deeefirw).

Definitions for fireweed

noun

  1. any of various plants appearing in recently burned clearings, as the willow herb, Epilobium angustifolium.

Origin of fireweed

An Americanism dating back to 1775-85; fire + weed1

Examples for fireweed

fireweed grew low, but the blooms were large and of a deep rose color.

There were great fields of fireweed, which presented masses of pink.

Here and there were wooded slopes; others were rosy with fireweed that moved softly, like clouds.

And everywhere in the burnt areas was the fireweed, that phœnix plant that springs up from the ashes of dead trees.

The fireweed, familiar everywhere in the mountains, shone like a tongue of flame against a background of green.

Along the roadside and meadows purplish-pink flowers of the fireweed are in bloom.

Floating in nebulous masses about the blackberry thicket, the delicately conspicuous hue of the fireweed catches the eye.

The fireweed is cultivated as an ornamental plant in England, where the leaves are also used as an adulterant of tea.

Word Value for fireweed
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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