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tumbleweed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tumbleweed has 4 senses
- tumbleweed(n = noun.plant) Array - any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass; Array is a kind of weed
- tumbleweed(n = noun.plant) russian cactus, russian thistle, russian tumbleweed, salsola kali tenuifolia - prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States; Array is a kind of bush, shrub
- tumbleweed(n = noun.plant) cycloloma atriplicifolium, winged pigweed - bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds; Array is a member of cycloloma, genus cycloloma
- tumbleweed(n = noun.plant) amaranthus albus, amaranthus graecizans - bushy plant of western United States; Array is a kind of amaranth
is a kind of bush, shrub
CIDE DICTIONARY
tumbleweed, n.
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; such as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus , etc. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tumbleweed, n. US & Austral. a plant, Amaranthus albus, that forms a globular bush that breaks off in late summer and is tumbled about by the wind.
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