[
UK
/tˈʌmbəlwˌiːd/
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NOUN
- bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
- any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
- prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
- bushy plant of western United States
How To Use tumbleweed In A Sentence
- At some times of day I half expect to see tumbleweed drifting around the sterile, impersonal, weird space that has been falsely created.
- Tumbleweed wish everyone a wonderful Year of the Tiger ! Happy everyday!
- Silence reigned but for tumbleweed passing through and then the sound of a far-off wolf howling.
- Tumbleweed offers these solutions in three comprehensive product suites: MailGate, SecureTransport, and Validation Authority.
- Even tumbleweed can't go on blowing down dusty streets for ever.
- A lonely plastic bag made it's way like tumbleweed down the vacant street.
- Alas, when we checked into the virtual village, all we could find was some virtual tumbleweed blowing across the square.
- The desert town of Perfection, Nevada - all tumbleweed and beat-up trucks - gets attacked by giant earthworms.
- She caught a couple of rats and I roasted them over some burning tumbleweed.
- Avinoam Danin, a botanist from Hebrew University of Jerusalem claims he has identified pollen from the tumbleweed Gundelia tournefortii and a bean caper on the shroud.
