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Meaning of SNAKEWEED

Pronunciation:  'sneyk`weed

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 Definition: [n]  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, rabbitweed, turpentine weed
 
 See Also: genus Gutierrezia, Gutierrezia, matchbush, matchweed

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Snake"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) A kind of knotweed ({Polygonum Bistorta}).
(b) The Virginia snakeroot. See {Snakeroot}.
 

 

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