ragwort Definition
ragwort Usage Examples
Converse of object
- pull: Every group needs a comedian who can keep the fun going during a dull day of scrub-bashing or pulling ragwort.
- eat: Don't eat the Ragwort, it makes you sick.
- remove: English Nature routinely removes ragwort from parts of National Nature Reserves we manage where the welfare of grazing animals would be at risk.
- control: What is being done to control Ragwort in the UK?
- include: Several other lethal plant species, including ragwort and hemlock, will be on display.
- allow: Under the 1959 Weeds Act, it is an offense to allow ragwort to grow on any land, whether farmland or grass verges.
Preposition: at
stage: Barrier H is applied as a spray directly onto the plants and destroys ragwort at all stages of growth.
Adjective modifier
- common: Flowers: July onwards, at its best when most Common Ragwort is over.
- poisonous: His liver damage was most probably caused by eating the poisonous plant ragwort, and our vets gave him very little chance of survival.
Modifies a noun
- poisoning: How many horses die from Ragwort poisoning in the UK?
- flower: A single Peacock settled on a yellow Ragwort flower.
- plant: Surveying route for additional work, removing ragwort plants.
- growth: Both new and previous year ragwort growth is normally clearly visible by mid-May.
- control: Ragwort control working quarry sites, Midlands & Central England.
- rosette: On many sites, ragwort rosettes can also be usefully removed in the autumn.
Noun used with modifier
- fen: The fen ragwort was one of the first species to be included in English Natureâs Species Recovery Program.
- year: Both new and previous year ragwort growth is normally clearly visible by mid-May.
- marsh: In damp patches marsh valerian, devil's-bit scabious, marsh ragwort, water avens, meadowsweet and can be found.
Preposition: in

