n.
1.coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
2.intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
Idiom of the Day
lose ground
to go backward, to become weaker, to not improve
The government has been losing ground in the fight against inflation.