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Snakeweed

Snakeweed \Snake"weed`\, n. (Bot.)

  1. A kind of knotweed ( Polygonum Bistorta).

  2. The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot.

WordNet
snakeweed

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 sarothrae]

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.