catchweed

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catchweed

(ˈkætʃˌwiːd)
n
(Plants) a weedy plant with a prickly stem
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Noun1.catchweed - annual having the stem beset with curved pricklescatchweed - annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
cleavers, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers
bedstraw - any of several plants of the genus Galium
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"Wild gorse is everywhere and that has a coconut flavour, there is pineappleweed which of course tastes like pineapple, heather tastes like hazelnut and sticky willie, or catchweed, tastes like cucumbers."
FAMILY DAYS OUT
Under the closing canopy, spring's garlic mustard, chickweed and catchweed die back, their yellow foliage accentuating a major decline of April growth.
Poor Will's Countryside Almanack for late spring early summer of 2013
Then everything is growing back: Jacob's ladder, ragwort, leafcup, wood mint, ground ivy, catchweed, moneywort, waterleaf, sweet rockets, leafcup, hemlock, parsnip and garlic mustard.
Poor Will's Countryside Almanack for early spring and middle spring of 2011
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