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Definition of Tarweeds
1. tarweed [n] - See also: tarweed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarweeds
Literary usage of Tarweeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. With the Flowers and Trees in California by Charles Francis Saunders (1914)
"Among the tarweeds in the Sierras Biding one day with a California mountaineer,
I asked him if he knew the name of a certain flower blooming by the roadside ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1880)
"The true tarweeds are 4 in number, all more or less possessed of an inherent
tarry stickiness and a high characteristic odor. They are the blue tarweed ..."
3. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1921)
"... or true tarweeds, form a subtribe of the Composites, confined almost exclusively
to the Pacific coast of North America, but cultivated to some extent in ..."
4. A History of American Literature by Percy Holmes Boynton (1919)
"Although he was later to write in sardonic comment on the dry season, Come where
my stubbly hillside slowly dries, And fond adhesive tarweeds gently shade, ..."
5. A History of American Literature by Percy Holmes Boynton (1919)
"Although he was later to write in sardonic comment on the dry season, Come where
my stubbly hillside slowly dries, And fond adhesive tarweeds gently shade, ..."
6. A History of American Literature by Percy Holmes Boynton (1919)
"Although he was later to write in sardonic comment on the dry season, Come where
my stubbly hillside slowly dries, And fond adhesive tarweeds gently shade, ..."
7. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"None of the native tarweeds are so offensive as this, which is an immigrant from
Chile. A remarkably sweet and limpid oil is expressed from the seeds, ..."
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