rabbitweed

rabbitweed
noun
low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
Hypernyms: ↑matchweed, ↑matchbush
Member Holonyms: ↑Gutierrezia, ↑genus Gutierrezia

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
Etymology: rabbit + weed
: a stiff woody herb (Gutierrezia sarothrae) of the central and southwestern United States with paniculate heads of small yellow flowers

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