orange hawkweed
- noun
- US
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hierba de halcón naranja
- Gardeners often struggle to control the spread of orange hawkweed in their lawns.
Examples
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I recognized the wildflower by its bright color as orange hawkweed.
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The hillside was covered in a vibrant mix of grasses and orange hawkweed.
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The orange hawkweed blooms brightly in the summer.
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Many gardeners dislike orange hawkweed because it spreads quickly.
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Gardeners often struggle to control the spread of orange hawkweed in their lawns.
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Many gardeners dislike orange hawkweed because it spreads quickly.
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The hillside was covered in a vibrant mix of grasses and orange hawkweed.
Synonyms
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A plant with yellow or orange flowers like a dandelion
A bright orange-red flower that spreads quickly and often becomes an unwanted weed in meadows
A small European plant with bright orange-red flowers that often grows wild and is a weed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term simply names a hawkweed that is orange in color: 'orange' (a hue) modifies 'hawkweed' (a flowering plant), so the referent is directly compositional. Color + noun species names are a productive, cross-linguistic pattern, making this easily interpretable by a B1 learner who knows the two constituents.
Etymology
Orange hawkweed may come from an old belief about hawks: people thought hawks ate the plant or fed it to their young, so they called it a hawkweed, using 'weed' to mean a plant people did not want. The word orange points to its bright orange flowers, so the full name now means a bright, often unwanted wildflower.