noun
- a delicate climbing or sprawling plant with finely divided leaves and small spurred flowers, often considered a weed
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The fumitory grew wild along the stone wall in the garden.
- Farmers often consider fumitory a troublesome weed in their fields.
- The delicate pink flowers of the fumitory bloomed throughout the summer.
- Fumitory can be found growing in disturbed soil and waste places.
- The herbalist collected fumitory for its traditional medicinal uses.
- Common fumitory is native to Europe but has spread to other regions.