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tumbleweed (sh)




Plant that breaks away from its roots and is driven about by the wind as a light rolling mass, scattering seeds as it goes.

Examples include pigweed (Amaranth retroflexus, a widespread weed in the western U.S.) and other amaranths, tumbling mustard, Russian thistle, the steppe plant Colutea arborea, and the grass Spinifex of Indonesian shores and Australian steppes.