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Tumbleweed

noun
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.  Synonyms: Russian cactus, Russian thistle, Russian tumbleweed, Salsola kali tenuifolia.
3.
Bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds.  Synonyms: Cycloloma atriplicifolium, winged pigweed.
4.
Bushy plant of western United States.  Synonyms: Amaranthus albus, Amaranthus graecizans.



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"Tumbleweed" Quotes from Famous Books



... hazy, cast ever-increasing shadow before her. Presently, as far as the eye could reach, she saw the landscape spring into active life. Dust-devils whirled about in quick eddies, stray sheets of paper leaped up, tumbleweed began steady forward movement, rabbit-like, scurrying before the winds, the advance occupied by largest growths, the rear brought up with smallest clumps, the order determined by the area each presented to the winds. It was all very impressive, ...
— Bred of the Desert - A Horse and a Romance • Marcus Horton


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