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ˈclearweed U.S.
[clear a. 3.]
A North American plant (Pilea pumila) of the nettle family; rich-weed.
1822Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. 2 Ser. IX. 157 Plants, which are indigenous in the township of Middlebury [Vt.]..Urtica pumila Clear-weed. 1863A. Gray Man. Bot. (ed. 4) 399 Pilea pumila. Richweed. Clearweed... Stems smooth and shining, pellucid. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 406 A nettle with succulent, semi-transparent stems is called Clearweed (Pilea pumila). 1939Nat. Geogr. Mag. Aug. 220/2 Such are the wood and false nettles..or the lowly bedstraws, clearweeds, pellitories, and three-seeded mercury. 1963Gleason & Cronquist Man. Vascular Plants 257 Pilea pumila (L.) Gray. Clearweed. |