noun
1. tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant
• Syn: ↑giant willowherb, ↑rosebay willowherb, ↑wickup, ↑Epilobium angustifolium
• Hypernyms: ↑willowherb
• Member Holonyms: ↑Epilobium, ↑genus Epilobium
2. an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers
• Syn: ↑Erechtites hieracifolia
• Hypernyms: ↑weed
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Erechtites
Useful english dictionary. 2012.