puncture weed
Americannoun
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Few plants are as useless, ugly and loathsome as the creeping puncture weed that straggles haphazardly across most of the western U.S.
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The puncture weed's burrlike seeds can flatten bicycle tires, foul up cotton-picking machinery, rip through horsehide and gouge cattle.
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Even the puncture weed's scientific name, Tribulus terrestris�"earthly bed of spikes," takes account of the tribulations it causes.*
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Last week biologists were well into the decisive battle of a long campaign to bring the prickly puncture weed under control.
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Searching for an explanation, the biologists discovered that the puncture weed is peculiarly susceptible to a particular European pest called the puncture-vine weevil�a quarter-inch brownish beetle with a snoutlike head.
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