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tumbleweed::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cycloloma atriplicifolium, winged pigweed |
| Type of | shrub, bush |
tumbleweed::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | russian cactus, russian thistle, russian tumbleweed, salsola kali tenuifolia |
| Type of | shrub, bush |
tumbleweed::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | amaranthus albus, amaranthus graecizans |
| Type of | amaranth |
tumbleweed::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | weed |
Examples of tumbleweed
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Its tumbleweed snowman stands sentinel over 100 species of cacti and succulents.
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Once that tumbleweed started rolling across the desert, there was no stopping it.
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In our minds he floats like a sockless tumbleweed above the grit of mundane life.
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That means public outdoor burning including tumbleweed burning is not allowed.
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Tumbleweed, earthier and more direct, ought to be one of the big hits of 1971.
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If government is not well-rooted, it is like tumbleweed blowing across the prairie.
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Plans to construct the next generation tumbleweed rover are already underway at JPL.
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As I said when Eden opened, it will be empty by 2010 with tumbleweed blowing through.
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Night comes on, and my world narrows to blacktop and strips of tumbleweed.
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- Any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
- Russian thistle: prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
- Winged pigweed: bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
- A tumbleweed is the above-ground part of a plant that, once mature and dry, disengages from the root and tumbles away in the wind. Usually, the tumbleweed is the entire plant apart from the roots, but in a few species it is a flower cluster. ...
- Tumbleweed is a 1953 western film starring Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson, Chill Wills, Roy Roberts, Russell Johnson, K.T. Stevens, Madge Meredith, and Lee Van Cleef. It was also known as Three Were Renegades.
- Tumbleweed are a Wollongong-based stoner rock group in Australia, popular during the grunge years of the 1990s. As an opening band for Nirvana on their 1992 tour of Australia, Tumbleweed reached out into the mainstream with their crunchy-psychedelica. ...
- (Tumbleweeds (1925 film)) Tumbleweeds is a 1925 American Western film starring and produced by William S. Hart. It depicts the Cherokee Strip land rush of 1893. The film is said to have influenced the Oscar-winning 1931 Western Cimarron, which also depicts the land rush. ...
- (Tumbleweeds (1999 film)) Tumbleweeds is a 1999 American drama film directed by Gavin O'Connor. He co-wrote the screenplay with his then-wife Angela Shelton, who was inspired by her memories of a childhood spent on the road with her serial-marrying mother.
- (Tumbleweeds (comic strip)) Tumbleweeds was a popular long-run comic strip which offered a skewed perspective on life in the Old West. Writer-artist Tom K. Ryan (1926) (who signed the strip "T.K. Ryan"), was very familiar with conventions of the Western genre he satirized. ...
