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Low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
Answer for the clue "Low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads ", 9 letters:
snakeweed
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Word definitions for snakeweed in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snakeweed \Snake"weed`\, n. (Bot.) A kind of knotweed ( Polygonum Bistorta ). The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot .
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n. low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads [syn: rabbitweed , rabbit-weed , broom snakeweed , broom snakeroot , turpentine weed , Gutierrezia ...
Usage examples of snakeweed.
He was wondering what circumstances brought a man in old, worn, lovingly polished custom-built shoes to die amid the chamisa, sage, and snakeweed east of Gallup.
Still, you could make out the old irrigation ditches which had once fed the larger and still-fenced bean- and alfalfa fields, dry and dead now but for tumbleweed and numerous yellow bun-shaped snakeweed bushes and sparse tufts of gramma grass.