tumbleweed

2 definitions found

tumbleweed - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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; such as witch grass, wild
     indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.
     [1913 Webster]

tumbleweed - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tumbleweed
      n 1: any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is
           driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
      2: prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central
         and western United States [syn: Russian thistle, Russian   tumbleweed
         , Russian cactus, tumbleweed, Salsola kali   tenuifolia
         ]
      3: bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish
         flowers and winged seeds [syn: winged pigweed,
         tumbleweed, Cycloloma atriplicifolium]
      4: bushy plant of western United States [syn: tumbleweed,
         Amaranthus albus, Amaranthus graecizans]