tarweed
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English
Etymology
Noun
tarweed (countable and uncountable, plural tarweeds)
- 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
Translations
sticky plant
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