pipeweed
/ˈpaɪpwiːd/
Etymology
From pipe + weed.
pipeweed means tobacco prepared for smoking in a pipe; also, the leaves of herbs or other plants prepared for such use. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
noun
- Tobacco prepared for smoking in a pipe; also, the leaves of herbs or other plants prepared for such use.“The ſtories told by one and another of theſe adventurers, had made a deep impreſſion on the mind of VValter Pipevveed, one of John [Bull]'s domeſtics, a fellovv of a roving and projecting diſpoſition, and vvho had learned the art of ſurveying.”
- Any of a number of plants having thin and straight stems resembling pipes, often hollow or lacking branches.“Equisetaceæ rivalled "the mast of some great ammiral," in localities where they dwarfed representatives, the horse-tail and pipe-weed of our bogs, stand only a few inches high.”
- Any of a number of plants having thin and straight stems resembling pipes, often hollow or lacking branches.; The common horsetail or field horsetail (Equisetum arvense).
- Any of a number of plants having thin and straight stems resembling pipes, often hollow or lacking branches.; 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.
- The redrattle (Pedicularis flammea), a parasitic plant having hollow stems.“Fistulária […] Pipe-vveed; ſo called becauſe its ſtalk is hollovv.”
- A type of seaweed with tubelike fronds; especially the sea lettuce (Ulva intestinalis).“U. diaphana. Transparent Ulva—Pipe-weed. Occasionally cast up on the beach at Seaton. Some authors call this substance, Alcyonium gelatinosum, and others Alcyonium diaphanum. It has much the appearance of an animal production.”