Definitions for ironweeds

ironweeds i·ron·weed

Spelling: [ahy-ern-weed]
IPA: /ˈaɪ ərnˌwid/

Ironweeds is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 502 anagrams from letters in ironweeds (deeinorsw).

Definitions for ironweeds

noun

  1. any of certain North American composite plants of the genus Vernonia, having tubular, chiefly purple or red disk flowers.

Origin of ironweeds

First recorded in 1810-20; iron + weed1

Examples for ironweeds

ironweed of royal purple, maroon-shot, mingles in illogical harmony with the blue vervain and magenta trumpet-weeds.

He sank deeper amid the ironweed, forgot his errand, and began to dream.

The tree which bore such remarkable fruit was commonly an ironweed tree standing in a conspicuous situation.

As for the ironweed, it clothes the pastures with a royal purple, so rich a hue it compels the eye, and is a kind of stimulant.

Jacqueline sat beneath the cedar, the branch of ironweed again within her hand.

The ironweed was in bloom, and sitting on its purple top the dryfly sang the song of midsummer.

Only one weed seems to hold its own against it, and that is ironweed, a plant like a robust purple aster five or six feet high.

ironweed and joepye-weed are such lusty, vigorous plants, and burdock and jimson-weed.

Followed by Young isham, Rand travelled on by the dusty road, between the parching elder and ironweed, blackberry and love vine.

His “Albany cycle,” seven novels including “ironweed,” for which he won the 1984 Pulitzer, are set there.

Word Value for ironweeds
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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