tarweed
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tarweed
Example Sentences
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The plot was weedy and wild, the Sémillon grapes we’d be harvesting sharing space with prickly blackberry bushes and tarweed.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
The tarweed clung to my socks, and a happy little bee hovered by my elbow.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
The meadow at the back was gay with mariposa lilies, melodious with bees and birds, aromatic with the mingled essences of tarweed, lads-love, and the pines.
From The Killer by Stewart Edward White
The stifling heat, the whirling dust clouds broken by whiffs of air, dry as from a kiln and impregnated with the pungent scent of the tarweed, made the men drowsy.
From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Geraldine Bonner
The valley swam under a haze of pure heat; a buzzard hung motionless over the cabin, and the dry air was sweet with resinous scent of pines and manzanita and even of tarweed.
From Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris
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