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tumbleweed


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tumbleweed  \Tum"ble*weed`\,  n.  (Bot.) 
  Any  plant  which  habitually  breaks  away  from  its  roots  in  the 
  autumn,  and  is  driven  by  the  wind,  as  a  light,  rolling  mass, 
  over  the  fields  and  prairies;  as  witch  grass,  wild  indigo, 
  {Amarantus  albus},  etc 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tumbleweed 
  n  1:  any  plant  that  breaks  away  from  its  roots  in  autumn  and  is 
  driven  by  the  wind  as  a  light  rolling  mass 
  2:  prickly  bushy  Eurasian  plant;  a  troublesome  weed  in  central 
  and  western  United  States  [syn:  {Russian  thistle},  {Russian 
  tumbleweed},  {Russian  cactus},  {Salsola  kali  tenuifolia}] 
  3:  bushy  annual  weed  of  central  North  America  having  greenish 
  flowers  and  winged  seeds  [syn:  {winged  pigweed},  {Cycloloma 
  atriplicifolium}] 




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