Unkraut

Definitions of Unkraut
  1. noun
    any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
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    Kornrade
    European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America
    Ackerspergel
    small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers
    Schuppenmiere
    prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America
    Distel, Stacheldistel
    any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
    Kanadisches Berufkraut
    common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron
    Bitterkraut, Ochsenzunge
    widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
    Spreizblättriges Greiskraut
    bluish-green bushy leafy plant covered with close white wool and bearing branched clusters of yellow flower heads; southwestern United States; toxic to range livestock
    Jakobsgreiskraut
    widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity
    Kreuzkraut
    Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers
    Brennesselgewächs
    any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)
    Krause Distel
    European biennial introduced in North America having flower heads in crowded clusters at ends of branches
    Silberdistel
    a thistle of the genus Carlina
    Golddistel
    any of several spiny Mediterranean herbs of the genus Scolymus having yellow flower heads
    Brennessel
    perennial Eurasian nettle established in North America having broad coarsely toothed leaves with copious stinging hairs
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    Gefäßpflanze
    green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms
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