Definition of Tarweeds

1. Noun. (plural of tarweed) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tarweeds

1. tarweed [n] - See also: tarweed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarweeds

tartronic
tartronic acid
tartronyl
tartrovinic
tartrovinic acid
tarts
tartufes
tartuffe
tartufferies
tartuffery
tartuffes
tartuffish
tartufish
tarweed
tarweeds (current term)
tarwhine
tarwhines
tarwood
tarzans
tas
tasar
tasars
tase
tased
taseqite
taser
tasered
tasering
tasers

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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