tarweed

English

Etymology

From tar +‎ weed.

Noun

tarweed (countable and uncountable, plural tarweeds)

1. Any of various American flowering plants that have sticky leaves.
   • 1944, Oregon. Agricultural experiment station, Circular of Information - Issues 323-395, page 3:

     Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.

   • 1951, Practical Butter Manufacture, a Manual for Buttermakers, page 25:

     To this group belong feeds such as: Silage, alfalfa hay, turnips, kale, apples, potatoes, beet pulp, beet tops, rape, cabbage; and also weeds such as garlic, scaleweed, dog-fennel, tarweed, peppergrass, wild mustard, and others.

Derived terms

• island tarweed

Translations

sticky plant

• Southern Ohlone: yarkas

Anagrams

• dewater, watered