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 tiny flames licked past them in the tarweed; they did not heed.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
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
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 Stewart Edward White
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