scentless mayweed
- noun
- UK
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manzanilla inodora
- Farmers sometimes struggle to control scentless mayweed in their crops, as it grows rapidly.
Examples
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Scentless mayweed can quickly spread in unmanaged fields and often invades newly planted lawns.
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The delicate white petals of the scentless mayweed add a simple beauty to roadside verges.
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The scentless mayweed grows abundantly in the fields.
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Many farmers consider scentless mayweed a nuisance.
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Scentless mayweed can quickly spread in unmanaged fields and often invades newly planted lawns.
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Farmers sometimes struggle to control scentless mayweed in their crops, as it grows rapidly.
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The delicate white petals of the scentless mayweed add a simple beauty to roadside verges.
Synonyms
A common annual weed with white daisy-like flowers and no smell
An annual plant with divided leaves and white flowers often seen as a weed in Europe and North America
A common weed with white flowers and thin, divided leaves that looks like chamomile
A common wild plant with small white flowers that grows like a weed
A small plant with white daisy-like flowers that has little or no smell
How Scented
Surface Forms
Morphology
scentless + mayweed
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'scentless' describes a 'mayweed', so the meaning is simply a mayweed that lacks a detectable scent. This follows ordinary adjective-noun naming patterns (common for plant names) and would be inferable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Scentless mayweed gets its name from how it looks and when it blooms: mayweed was used for small daisy-like weeds that often flower in 'May', and scentless shows this one has little or no smell. So when you see a small white daisy-like weed in fields that gives no scent, the name scentless mayweed tells you both its appearance and why it is called that.