hawkweed

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun any of various plants of the genus Pilosella
noun any of numerous often hairy plants of the genus Hieracium having yellow or orange flowers that resemble the dandelion

From hawk + weed, a partial calque of Ancient Greek ἱερᾱ́κῐον (hierā́kĭon).

It was when the ditches were yellow with hawkweed and the copses pink with campion, and no man living could have told you what the intentions of the Air Ministry were. — A Case in Camera, Oliver Onions
Through a barley-field first; all the pale spears slanting westward in the level sun; then a field of old pasture, knapweeds purpling, little hawkweed clocks telling the time in fairyland, loitering buttercups. — Doctor Cupid: A Novel, Rhoda Broughton
By the middle of January the tightly rolled lambs' tails on the hazels were unfolding themselves and beginning to scatter pollen, and a few stray specimens of last summer's flowers, a belated campion or hawkweed, would struggle out from the rough grass under a protecting gorse-bush. — For the Sake of the School, Angela Brazil

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