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stink·weed  (stngkwd)

n.

Any of various plants that have flowers or foliage with an unpleasant odor.

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stinkweed [ˈstɪŋkˌwiːd]

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Also called wall mustard a plant, Diplotaxis muralis, naturalized in Britain and S and central Europe, having pale yellow flowers, cylindrical seed pods, and a disagreeable smell when bruised: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various other ill-smelling plants, such as mayweed

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stinkweed - foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America fanweed, field pennycress, French weed, mithridate mustard, penny grass, Thlaspi arvense genus Thlaspi, Thlaspi - herbs of temperate regions: pennycress pennycress - any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi