Crossword clues for snakeweed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snakeweed \Snake"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
A kind of knotweed ( Polygonum Bistorta).
The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot.
WordNet
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.