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• loco weed — Loco Lo co, n. [Sp. loco insane.] 1. (Bot.) A plant ({Astragalus Hornii}) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Loco — can refer to the following:* Loco (loa), a Rada nation patron of healers and plants * Loco (song), the first single by the band Coal Chamber * An abbreviation for locomotive * The Chilean and Peruvian name for the local Abalone * Loco (computer… …   Wikipedia

• Loco — Lo co, n. [Sp. loco insane.] 1. (Bot.) A plant ({Astragalus Hornii}) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Loco disease — (Veter.) A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• loco — (adj.) 1844, Amer.Eng., from Sp. loco (adj.) insane, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Arabic lauqa, fem. of alwaq fool, crazy person. Loco weed (1877) was name given to species of western U.S. plants that cause cattle and horse diseases that… …   Etymology dictionary

• loco —   a. insane.    ♦ loco disease, kind of nervous disease of cattle, sheep and horses due to their eating loco weed …   Dictionary of difficult words

• loco — 1. n. (pl. os) colloq. a locomotive engine. Etymology: abbr. 2. adj. & n. adj. sl. crazy. n. (pl. oes or os) (in full loco weed) a poisonous leguminous plant of the US causing brain disease in cattle eating it. Etymology: Sp., = insane …   Useful english dictionary

• crazy weed — noun any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock • Syn: ↑locoweed, ↑crazyweed • Hypernyms: ↑legume, ↑leguminous plant • Hyponyms: ↑purple locoweed, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• purple loco — noun tufted locoweed of southwestern United States having purple or pink to white flowers • Syn: ↑purple locoweed, ↑Oxytropis lambertii • Hypernyms: ↑locoweed, ↑crazyweed, ↑crazy weed * * * noun see …   Useful english dictionary

• Astragalus Hornii — Loco Lo co, n. [Sp. loco insane.] 1. (Bot.) A plant ({Astragalus Hornii}) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Oxytropis Lambertii — Loco Lo co, n. [Sp. loco insane.] 1. (Bot.) A plant ({Astragalus Hornii}) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English