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[syn: rabbitweed, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeweed, broom snakeroot, turpentine weed, Gutierrezia sarothrae]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Snakeweed \Snake"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) A kind of knotweed (Polygonum Bistorta).
(b) The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
snakeweed
n 1: low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States
having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and
hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads [syn: rabbitweed,
rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeweed, broom
snakeroot, turpentine weed, Gutierrezia sarothrae]