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 meadow at the back was gay with mariposa lilies, melodious with bees and birds, aromatic with the mingled essences of tarweed, lads-love, and the pines.
From The Killer by White, Stewart Edward
The stifling heat, the whirling dust clouds broken by whiffs of air, dry as from a kiln and impregnated with the pungent scent of the tarweed, made the men drowsy.
From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine
The doorway was shadowed, the blackness of the barn's interior behind it, the scent of clean hay drifting out and mingling with the scents of baked earth and tarweed that came from the heated fields.
From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine
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