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jewelweed en · NOUN

Etymology

From jewel + weed.

Meanings

1. (US, countable, uncountable) Impatiens, especially Impatiens capensis and Impatiens pallida.
   • he could still see a flower here and there smile up at him – the tawny red of the jewel-weed, and the close-tufted ball of the ‘mountain snow.’ 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 136:

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