HyperDic: turpentine_weed

English > 1 sense of the expression turpentine weed:
NOUNplantturpentine weed, rabbitweed, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeweed, broom snakeroot, Gutierrezia sarothraelow-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
English > turpentine weed: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaninglow-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads.
Synonymsrabbitweed, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeweed, broom snakeroot, Gutierrezia sarothrae
Member ofGutierrezia, genus Gutierreziasticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America
Broadermatchweed, matchbushAny of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches

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