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tarweed

tarweed noun: any of various American flowering plants that have sticky leaves.

Noun

tarweed (countable and uncountable, plural tarweeds)

  1. Any of various American flowering plants that have sticky leaves.
    • Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.1944, Oregon. Agricultural experiment station, Circular of Information - Issues 323-395, page 3
    • To this group belong feeds such as: Silage, alfalfa hay, turnips, kale, apples, potatoes, beet pulp, beet tops, rape, cabbage; and also weeds such as garlic, scaleweed, dog-fennel, tarweed, peppergrass, wild mustard, and others.1951, Practical Butter Manufacture, a Manual for Buttermakers, page 25

Forms of tarweed

pluraltarweeds

Origin of tarweed

From tar + weed.

Words formed from tarweed

Questions about tarweed

What does tarweed mean?
Tarweed means any of various American flowering plants that have sticky leaves.
What part of speech is tarweed?
Tarweed is a noun.
What is the plural of tarweed?
The plural of tarweed is tarweeds.

Words near tarweed in the dictionary

  1. Tarvisio
  2. Tarvos
  3. tarwad
  4. Tarwater
  5. Tarwaters
  6. tarweed
  7. tarweeds
  8. tarwhine
  9. tarwhines
  10. Tarwin
  11. Tarwin Lower

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