SNAKEWEED

rabbitweed, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeweed, broom snakeroot, turpentine weed, Gutierrezia sarothrae

(noun) low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

snakeweed (usually uncountable, plural snakeweeds)

Any of various unrelated plants reputed to cure snakebite.

A poisonous American plant of the genus Gutierrezia.

Synonyms

• (Gutierrezia): matchweed

Source: Wiktionary


Snake"weed`, n. (Bot.) (a) A kind of knotweed (Polygonum Bistorta). (b) The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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