Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tarweed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tar-weed
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various American flowering plants that have sticky leaves.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass."
"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."

Etymology

From tar + weed.

Usage

Inflected Forms

tarweeds (plural)

Phrases

common tarweed island tarweed

Synonyms

gumweed gum plant rosinweed

Questions

What does tarweed mean?: Any of various American flowering plants that have sticky leaves.
Where does tarweed come from?: From tar + weed.

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