Cancerweed (Noun)
Meaning
Sage of eastern United States.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Cancerweed, a small herb, grew alongside the tall sage in the eastern United States.
- As a young naturalist, Emily often spent her days identifying plants, and one day she spotted cancerweed thriving near the banks of the lake, which led her to write an entire journal entry on its symbiotic relationship with sage.
- It took experts a long time to confirm the impact of sage growth on the cultivation of cancerweed, native to the eastern parts of the United States.
- Under controlled conditions, it has been demonstrated that extracts of cancerweed stimulate new cell division and subsequent formation in both this herb and certain cultivars of eastern United States sage.
- If conservationists succeeded in replanting areas destroyed by a decade of wild fire, maybe native herbs such as sage would reclaim its status alongside wild varieties of cancerweed that they hoped had made their homes back east in American meadows again.