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noun
Tobacco prepared for smoking in a pipe; also, the leaves of herbs or other plants prepared for such use.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, smoking
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noun
Any of a number of plants having thin and straight stems resembling pipes, often hollow or lacking branches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: specifically, uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, specifically, uncountable
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noun
The redrattle (Pedicularis flammea), a parasitic plant having hollow stems.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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noun
A type of seaweed with tubelike fronds; especially the sea lettuce (Ulva intestinalis).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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noun
An unidentified sessile marine invertebrate, probably a soft coral or sponge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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History
From pipe + weed.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
