tarweed
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tarweed
Example Sentences
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The tarweed clung to my socks, and a happy little bee hovered by my elbow.
From The New Yorker
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 Project Gutenberg
Lysander, tired of waiting, came striding through the tarweed, with his hoe on his shoulder.
From Project Gutenberg
He looked down upon his clothes, stuccoed with tarweed burrs and wet mud.
From Project Gutenberg
Grasshoppers whirred everywhere; squirrels whistled; occasional little dust-devils whirled up the now thoroughly dry river-bed and the atmosphere was redolent of the aroma of dust and tarweed.
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