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groundsel

[ UK /ɡɹˈa‍ʊndsə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers

How To Use groundsel In A Sentence

  • Some weeds, such as chickweed, common groundsel, and bittercress, may germinate and grow at almost any time of year.
  • Among the other species are broom groundsel, James' catseye, narrow-leaf gromwell, narrow-leaved penstemon, needle and thread, nodding buckwheat, rubber rabbitbrush, and yucca.
  • One is no longer woken by the cry of the groundsel sellers. Edouard de pomiane | soups « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • And he said that he was a chapman journeying after gain, and looked to buy wares in the Dale, and therewith he asked us if we had aught to sell him, but Anna laughed and said: 'Fair sir, were ye to buy all this and all that is in it, from groundsell to roofridge, and all our kine and sheep and horses to boot, little would the tide of gold ebb in thy bags yonder.' The Sundering Flood
  • BRACHYLOENUS D. C., a kind of groundsel; MORGANIA FLORIBUND., loaded with purple blossoms, and a variety of HELICHRYSUM BRACTEATUM, somewhat different in the leaves from the usual state of the species. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • Some weeds, such as chickweed, common groundsel, and bittercress, may germinate and grow at almost any time of year.
  • By the fifteenth century groundsel was grown extensively with other medicinal plants in many monastery gardens. The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
  • No! There's her pretty hat of straw Laid on the bench; but then they saw There was no ribbon round it; The garden all neglected; The rake and wat'ring-pot were down Amongst the jonquils overthrown; The broken-branched roses running riot; The dandelion, groundsell, all about; And the nice walks, laid out with so much taste, Now cover'd with neglected weeds and wanton waste. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
  • Common offenders are annual meadow grass, chickweed, fat hen, groundsel, hairy bittercress, redshank and shepherd's purse. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those with chapped hands should try coating them in my special groundsel lotion. The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
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