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matchweed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun matchweed has 1 sense
- matchweed(n = noun.plant) matchbush - any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches; Array is a member of genus gutierrezia, gutierrezia
has particulars: gutierrezia microcephala, little-head snakeweed, broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbit-weed, rabbitweed, snakeweed, turpentine weed, broom-weed, broomweed, gutierrezia texana
is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex
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