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tarweed

American  
[tahr-weed] / ˈtɑrˌwid /

noun

  1. any of several resinous or gummy, composite plants of the genus Grindelia, having solitary flower heads.


Etymology

Origin of tarweed

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70; tar 1 + weed 1

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

He raked carefully his broad path among the pine needles, laying bare the brown earth; hoed and chopped in the tarweed and brush.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward

Up the slope they galloped, whirled around the end of the fire line, and began eagerly to lick up the tarweed and needles of the ridge-top.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward

He looked down upon his clothes, stuccoed with tarweed burrs and wet mud.

From Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University by Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg)