catclaw
Americannoun
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a prickly plant, Schrankia nutallii, of the legume family, native to the midwestern U.S. having pinnate leaves and tiny pink flowers forming a spherical cluster.
Etymology
Origin of catclaw
Example Sentences
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It moved here, to remote ranchlands where even the plant names — catclaw, saltbush, snakeweed — sound forbidding.
From Time • Jun. 4, 2010
Such worthless plant life as mesquite and catclaw absorbs 35% of the rainfall, and another 40% is lost to evaporation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wink's housewives watch warily for rattlesnakes slithering through the mesquite and catclaw bushes in their yards.
From Time Magazine Archive
We could hear his angry rumbling as he moved down through the thickets of catclaw and scrub oak.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
He was a lean, large-eyed person, apparently of some nine or ten years—which left his vocabulary unaccounted for; his face was smeared and bleeding, scratched by catclaw; his apparel much betattered by the same reason.
From Copper Streak Trail by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
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