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: ↑rabbitweed, ↑rabbit-weed, ↑snakeweed, ↑broom snakeweed, ↑broom snakeroot, ↑Gutierrezia sarothrae
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gutierrezia, ↑genus Gutierrezia
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noun : any of several No. American herbs with an odor resembling that of turpentine: as
a.
(1) : prairie dock 1
(2) : compass plant a
b. : a California blue curls (Trichostema laxum) with purple or deep blue flowers
Useful english dictionary. 2012.