tumbleweed

Definition of Tumbleweed in English :

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Noun

1. tumbleweed

any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass

2. russian cactus, russian thistle, russian tumbleweed, salsola kali tenuifolia, tumbleweed

prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States

3. cycloloma atriplicifolium, tumbleweed, winged pigweed

bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds

4. amaranthus albus, amaranthus graecizans, tumbleweed

bushy plant of western United States

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tumbleweed

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noun

any densely branched plant that breaks off near the ground on withering and is rolled about by the wind, esp one of several amaranths of the western US and Australia

Tumbleweed

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noun

any of a number of plants, as the pigweed or Russian thistle, that break off near the ground in autumn and are blown about by the wind

Tumbleweed

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n.

Any of various densely branched annual plants, such as Russian thistle and several species of amaranth, that break off from the roots at the end of the growing season and are rolled about by the wind.

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