stinkweed
- n foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America
- Stuffy contemporaries thought it a stinkweed, but today it seems more like a pressed roseflat and sere.
- Promised Harby: "I'm going to vote no more funds to the city art department as long as they put out this kind of stinkweed stuff.
- Other traps for the unwary in newspaper ads are fancy names such as "Tree of Heaven" for Ailanthus altissima, otherwise known as stinkweed, or the ever-popular "Christmas Rose .