Definitions for tarweed

tarweed tar·weed

Spelling: [tahr-weed]
IPA: /ˈtɑrˌwid/

Tarweed is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in tarweed (adeertw).

Definitions for tarweed

noun

  1. any of several resinous or gummy, composite plants of the genus Grindelia, having solitary flower heads.

Origin of tarweed

An Americanism dating back to 1865-70; tar1 + weed1

Examples for tarweed

An abundance of tarweed, restricted to the deposit area, might well be considered a vegetation association.

Lysander, tired of waiting, came striding through the tarweed, with his hoe on his shoulder.

The tiny flames licked past them in the tarweed; they did not heed.

The fire had leaped the cleared path and was greedily eating in all directions through the short, pitchy growth of tarweed.

The tarweed, especially, was stubborn under even the most vigorous wielding of his sharpened hoe.

The brushed marks went not only through the carpet of pine needles, but through the tarweed, the snow brush, the manzañita.

He raked carefully his broad path among the pine needles, laying bare the brown earth; hoed and chopped in the tarweed and brush.

He looked down upon his clothes, stuccoed with tarweed burrs and wet mud.

Bears do not eat it, so the name Bear-clover is poor, and tarweed belongs to another plant.

Word Value for tarweed
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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