Found 2 items, similar to tumbleweed.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: tumbleweed
tumbleweed
n 1: any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is
driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
2: prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central
and western United States [syn:
Russian thistle,
Russian tumbleweed
,
Russian cactus,
Salsola kali tenuifolia]
3: bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish
flowers and winged seeds [syn:
winged pigweed,
Cycloloma atriplicifolium
]
4: bushy plant of western United States [syn:
Amaranthus albus,
Amaranthus graecizans]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed
\Tum"ble*weed`\, n. (Bot.)
Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the
autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass,
over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo,
Amarantus albus, etc.
[1913 Webster]