snakeweed
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of snakeweed
Example Sentences
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Dryland Wilds captures the true scent of New Mexico by imbuing its soaps, perfumes and lip tints with such native flora as sagebrush, snakeweed, rosehip and thistle.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2019
It moved here, to remote ranchlands where even the plant names — catclaw, saltbush, snakeweed — sound forbidding.
From Time • Jun. 4, 2010
Make four bundles tie them with yucca spruce mixed with charcoal from burned weeds snakeweed and gramma grass and rock sage.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
Above him, nighthawks fluttered jaggedly, uttering their deep resonant beeps; a touch of sensual peace and magic lay like a mist across the sagebrush and snakeweed mesa.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
A meal of frozen possum stewed with lichens, snakeweed, and lousewort.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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