Crossword clues for tumbleweed
tumbleweed
- Detached wanderer's stomach produced wind before religious festival, reportedly
- Windblown desert plant
- It rolls in a ghost town
- What may cross a highway, or a theme hint
- Rolling plant in Westerns
- Plant swept along by the wind — wet Elbe mud (anag)
- It may be blowin' in the wind
- Desert plant suggested by this puzzle's circles
- Bushy plant of western United States
- Bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
- A troublesome weed in central and western United States
- Any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
- Prickly bushy Eurasian plant
- Roller on a prairie
- Plant that blows around in the wind
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tumbleweed \Tum"ble*weed`\, n. (Bot.) Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, (taxlink Amaranthus albus species noshow=1), etc. 2 (context attributive English) Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received from one’s audience. Gives the impression that a tumbleweed has passed through the room, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert.
WordNet
n. any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States [syn: Russian thistle, Russian tumbleweed, Russian cactus, Salsola kali tenuifolia]
bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds [syn: winged pigweed, Cycloloma atriplicifolium]
bushy plant of western United States [syn: Amaranthus albus, Amaranthus graecizans]
Wikipedia
Tumbleweed is an Australian rock group formed in 1990 in Tarrawanna. Three of their studio albums appeared on the ARIA Albums Chart: Tumbleweed (No. 48, 13 December 1992), Galactaphonic (No. 6, May 1995), and Return to Earth (No. 11, 1 September 1996). Three releases reached the top 50 on the related ARIA Singles Chart: "Sundial (Maryjane)" (1993), "Gyroscope" (1994), and "Hang Around" (1995).
The group had a year-long hiatus from April 1998 after reconvening in 1999 they recorded Mumbo Jumbo (March 2000). At the ARIA Music Awards of 2000 it was nominated for Best Adult Alternative Album. Tumbleweed disbanded in 2003. In 2009 Tumbleweed reformed with their early line up of Jason Curley on bass guitar, his brother Lenny Curley on guitar, Paul Hausmeister on guitar, Richard Lewis on lead vocals, and Steve O'Brien on drums. Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described the group as the "ultimate stoner's band for the 1990s. From within a post-psychedelic underground haze that evoked the spirit of 1969, [they] came on with lashings of fuzz-drenched wah wah guitar riffs, hard-driving beats, languid vocal melodies and more hair than any band had a right to possess!"
A tumbleweed is a structural part of the above-ground anatomy of a number of species of plants, a diaspore that, once it is mature and dry, detaches from its root or stem, and tumbles away in the wind. In most such species, the tumbleweed is in effect the entire plant apart from the root system, but in other plants, a hollow fruit or an inflorescence might serve the function. Tumbleweed species occur most commonly in steppe and arid ecologies, where frequent wind and the open environment permit rolling without prohibitive obstruction.
Apart from its propagules (that is, its seeds or spores), the tissues of the tumbleweed structure are dead; their death is functional because it is necessary for the structure to degrade gradually and fall apart so that the propagules can escape during the tumbling, or germinate after the tumbleweed has come to rest in a wet location. In the latter case, many species of tumbleweed open mechanically, releasing their seeds as they swell when they absorb water.
The tumbleweed diaspore disperses propagules, but the tumbleweed strategy is not limited to the seed plants; some species of spore-bearing Cryptogams such as Selaginella form tumbleweeds, and some fungi that resemble puffballs dry out, break free of their attachments and are similarly tumbled by the wind, dispersing spores as they go.
Tumbleweed is a kind of plant habit or structure
Tumbleweed, tumble-weed, tumble weed, and similar may also refer to:
Tumbleweed is a 1953 American western film about a horse of the same name, directed by Nathan Juran and starring Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson, Chill Wills, Roy Roberts, Russell Johnson, K.T. Stevens, Madge Meredith, and Lee Van Cleef. It was also known by the alternative title of Three Were Renegades; the title of the 1937 novel Three Were Thoroughbreds by Kenneth Taylor Perkins the film was based on which had been previously filmed as the 1948 film Relentless.
"Tumbleweed" is a song written by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, and recorded by American country music artist Sylvia. It was released in September 1980 as the second single from the album Drifter. The song reached #10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Usage examples of "tumbleweed".
Another accident occurred when Flossie Devine, in a Dancing Trout station wagon late at night on her way back from a Capital City dentist, swerved to avoid a mammoth tumbleweed loping across the highway and wound up in a ditch with her new bridgework in her lap.
A lot of the hectarage, though, either lay fallow or appeared to be overgrown with vines and tumbleweeds.
When you think of ghost towns you think of open spaces, two or three blocks of crumbling false-front buildings, tumbleweeds everywhere, a saloon with one of its batwings canted at a rakish angle, hitchracks and horse troughs and broken signs flapping in the wind.
The big, bad Mec went down like a de-pressurized hovercraft, his hat rolling off his head like tumbleweed.
A well housing in the front dirt yard, a rusty 1949 Oldsmobile with bullet holes across the windshield sinking on its rims nearby, big yellow tumbleweed skeletons scattered among a few sunflowers, then the raggedy cottonwoods along the creekbed across the road and the majestic snowcapped Midnight Mountains beyond.
But half-grown tumbleweeds, speckled yellow-green and ready to start their rooted period, were rolling through the grove towards the disturbed area.
Drifts of tumbleweeds, winter blizzards, dry rot, errant cattle, broke down both fences and communications.
To the west he could see a green band that was the edge of the south farms, but to the south was nothing but the spread of tumbled, empty buildings, a scene lost somewhere between city scape and landscape, animated by rolling tumbleweeds and, once in a while, the ragged figure of a scavenger too weak to venture very far from the city walls.
Something was burning, with a smell that reminded him of burning tumbleweeds when he had worked a summer in the Kansas oil fields.
Kansas also contains manufacturing and tumbleweeds, which are plants that form themselves into giant balls that roll across the prairie and burst into your motel room at night, which is why the American Automobile Association recommends that you always sleep with a weed whacker.
I could make out a number of features: clusters of tumbleweeds, like giant beach balls, creosote bushes, bayonet cactuses, yuccas, and the leggy branches of the palo verde trees.
The huddled shadows tended to form and reform, shifting, as the wind pushed the tumbleweeds across the uneven ground.
A short spell later, four of her vaqueros herded what she called her eight best ponies around a corner through the wild mustard and green tumbleweed.
No lack of I tumbleweeds there, every one is the leader of the herd, and only the evil have blowouts.
Someone had shot it in the head and buried it under tumbleweed to make it look like a big old clump of brush against a bobwire fence.