hogweed

«hogweed» in Mova's school dictionary: a tall wild plant with big flat heads of tiny white flowers — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (hogweed — uncountable; a hogweed plant)

meaning for a pupil

1) Hogweed is a tall wild plant with big flat heads of tiny white flowers. tree →

2) Giant hogweed is a huge kind whose sap makes skin burn and blister badly in sunlight. tree →

sense in the lessons

In outdoor safety lessons, giant hogweed is a dangerous plant: it can grow taller than an adult, with a thick green stem with purple blotches and huge leaves. Do not touch it; if sap gets on your skin, cover it from the sun, wash it with soap and water, and tell an adult. It grows by rivers, roadsides and parks in the UK, Ireland and North America. Phrases: «giant hogweed», «common hogweed», «hogweed burns».

examples

• Don't touch the giant hogweed by the river! tree →
• Giant hogweed can grow taller than a person. tree →
• Hogweed sap can burn your skin in sunlight. tree →
• The park put up signs warning about hogweed. tree →
• Common hogweed has white umbrella-shaped flowers. tree →
• He got blisters after touching hogweed. tree →
• Wash your skin quickly if you touch hogweed sap. tree →
• Giant hogweed has purple spots on its stem. tree →

note

Uncountable as a plant name. One word: hog + weed. Trap: cow parsley and common hogweed look similar to giant hogweed; the safest rule is not to touch any big plants like this. The burn may appear a day later and come back in sunlight for months.

In the corpora

• Giant hogweed is a very tall plant with huge white flower umbrellas, often beside rivers.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hogweed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.