noun
low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
• Syn: ↑rabbit-weed, ↑snakeweed, ↑broom snakeweed, ↑broom snakeroot, ↑turpentine weed, ↑Gutierrezia sarothrae
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gutierrezia, ↑genus Gutierrezia
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ nounEtymology: rabbit + weed
: a stiff woody herb (Gutierrezia sarothrae) of the central and southwestern United States with paniculate heads of small yellow flowers
Useful english dictionary. 2012.