Snakeweed

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Snakeweed \Snake"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
     (a) A kind of knotweed ({Polygonum Bistorta}).
     (b) The Virginia snakeroot. See {Snakeroot}.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  snakeweed
       n : low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States
           having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and
           hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads [syn: {rabbitweed},
           {rabbit-weed}, {broom snakeweed}, {broom snakeroot}, {turpentine
           weed}, {Gutierrezia sarothrae}]