Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/February 2

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Word of the day
for February 2
pipeweed n
  1. (smoking) Tobacco prepared for smoking in a pipe; also, the leaves of herbs or other plants prepared for such use.
  2. Any of a number of plants having thin and straight stems resembling pipes, often hollow or lacking branches.
    1. (specifically) The common horsetail or field horsetail (Equisetum arvense).
    2. (specifically, US) The desert trumpet (Eriogonum inflatum) which has a straight stem with a swollen portion; formerly some Native American tribes in the Las Vegas Valley area turned such stems into pipes for smoking by removing the stem at the base and cutting the swollen portion in half to serve as a bowl.
  3. (obsolete)
    1. The redrattle (Pedicularis flammea), a parasitic plant having hollow stems.
    2. A type of seaweed with tubelike fronds; especially the sea lettuce (Ulva intestinalis).
    3. An unidentified sessile marine invertebrate, probably a soft coral or sponge.
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