Word.ws English Dictionary

thimbleweed

thimbleweed noun: rudbeckia laciniata.

Noun

thimbleweed (plural thimbleweeds)

  1. Rudbeckia laciniata
  2. Anemone virginiana
  3. Anemone cylindrica

Forms of thimbleweed

pluralthimbleweeds

Origin of thimbleweed

From thimble + weed.

Words formed from thimbleweed

Questions about thimbleweed

What does thimbleweed mean?
Thimbleweed means rudbeckia laciniata.
What part of speech is thimbleweed?
Thimbleweed is a noun.
What is the plural of thimbleweed?
The plural of thimbleweed is thimbleweeds.

Words near thimbleweed in the dictionary

  1. thimblerigging
  2. thimblerigs
  3. thimbles
  4. thimblesful
  5. thimblette
  6. thimbleweed
  7. thimbleweeds
  8. thimbling
  9. Thimbu
  10. Thimbus
  11. thimerasol

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thimbleweed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “thimbleweed.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thimbleweed. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.