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, ↑turpentine weed, ↑Gutierrezia sarothrae
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gutierrezia, ↑genus Gutierrezia
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noun or broom snakeweed : a glabrous and often glutinous low-growing composite shrub (Gutierrezia sarothrae) of the southwestern United States with narrowly linear leaves and small heads of yellow flowers
Useful english dictionary. 2012.