Rabbit-weed (Noun)
Meaning
Low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The desert landscape was dotted with rabbit-weed, its tiny yellow flowers swaying gently in the breeze.
- As we hiked through the arroyo, we had to push through thick patches of rabbit-weed that clung to our clothes.
- The botanist carefully collected a sample of rabbit-weed to study its unique properties and adaptations.
- Rabbit-weed grew in profusion along the dry creek bed, its sticky leaves catching at our skin as we walked by.
- In the southwestern United States, rabbit-weed is a common sight in dry washes and rocky outcroppings.