Herb. [Another form of BENWEED, occurring also as binweed, bindweed: etymological form and derivation uncertain.] A Scotch name of the Ragweed (Senecio Jacobæa).

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a. 1455.  Holland, Houlate, xxvii. 12. Bot a blak bunwede.

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1812.  J. Wilson, Renfrewsh., 136 (Jam.). Prevailing weeds in meadows and grass lands are rag-wort or bindweed, Senecio jacobea.

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1820.  Blackw. Mag., June, 266. The Scottish witches always went by air on broomsticks and bunweeds.

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1847.  J. Wilson, Chr. North (1857), II. 22. Sitting among the binweeds and thistles.

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