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    RABBITWEED

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower headsplay

    Synonyms:

    broom snakeroot; broom snakeweed; Gutierrezia sarothrae; rabbit-weed; rabbitweed; snakeweed; turpentine weed

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("rabbitweed" is a kind of...):

    matchbush; matchweed (any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches)

    Holonyms ("rabbitweed" is a member of...):

    genus Gutierrezia; Gutierrezia (sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America)

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