bunweed Herb.
(ˈbʌnwiːd)
[Another form of benweed, occurring also as binweed, bindweed: etymological form and derivation uncertain.]
A Scotch name of the Ragweed (Senecio Jacobæa).
| a 1455 Holland Houlate xxvii. 12 Bot a blak bunwede. 1812 J. Wilson Renfrewsh. 136 (Jam.) Prevailing weeds in meadows and grass lands are rag-wort or bindweed, Senecio jacobea. 1820 Blackw. Mag. June 266 The Scottish witches always went by air on broomsticks and bunweeds. 1847 J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) II. 22 Sitting among the binweeds and thistles. |