snakeweed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
    Gutierrezia sarothrae; rabbit-weed; rabbitweed; broom snakeroot; turpentine weed; broom snakeweed.

WordNet


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

Webster 1913