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LOCOWEED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Street names for marijuana
Synonyms:
dope; gage; grass; green goddess; locoweed; Mary Jane; pot; sens; sess; skunk; smoke; weed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("locoweed" is a kind of...):
cannabis; ganja; marihuana; marijuana (the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock
Synonyms:
crazy weed; crazyweed; locoweed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("locoweed" is a kind of...):
legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "locoweed"):
Oxytropis lambertii; purple loco; purple locoweed (tufted locoweed of southwestern United States having purple or pink to white flowers)
Holonyms ("locoweed" is a member of...):
genus Oxytropis; Oxytropis (large widely-distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and racemose or spicate flowers each having a pea-like corolla with a clawed petal)
