TURPENTINE WEED

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("turpentine weed" 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 ("turpentine weed" is a member of...):

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

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