ragwort

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity
noun American ragwort with yellow flowers

From rag (referring to the ragged leaves) + wort.

Linnet plucked a yellow ragwort and pulled out the ray-florets one by one as she answered, “I shan’t have the chance. — Linnet: A Romance, Grant Allen
The road passes a fir-wood, bright with golden-rod and ragwort and soft blue scabious, and by-and-by turns eastward, and reaches the scattered village of Brendon. — Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts, Rosalind Northcote
They are neighbors, but not friends, and they live in the same sphere, held together only by the law of gravity which holds to one spot of earth the rose and the ragwort. — The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills, John Trotwood Moore

tansy ragwort, ragweed, benweed, Senecio jacobaea

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