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 ● Nov. 18, 2019
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 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 Norris, Kathleen Thompson
Lysander, tired of waiting, came striding through the tarweed, with his hoe on his shoulder.
From Stories of the Foot-hills by Graham, Margaret Collier
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
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