Tarweed
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of various American flowering plants that have sticky leaves. countable, uncountable
"Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass."
- 2 any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock wordnet
- 3 any of various resinous glandular plants of the genus Madia; of western North and South America wordnet
Example
More examples"Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass."
Etymology
From tar + weed.
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