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
With short, quick jabs of his hoe, he was tearing away at the tough tarweed.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
We tried him at sun-up, an' again at sundown, an' nights, too, laying in the chaparral an' tarweed, an' scouting up an' down that blame river, till we were sore.
From A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West by Frank Norris
Under the common designation of "tarweed," plants belonging to two different genera—Madia and Hemizonia—and comprising thirty or forty species, may be found.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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