noun
sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America
• Syn: ↑genus Gutierrezia
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family
• Member Meronyms:
↑matchweed, ↑matchbush, ↑rabbitweed, ↑rabbit-weed, ↑snakeweed, ↑broom snakeweed, ↑broom snakeroot, ↑turpentine weed, ↑Gutierrezia sarothrae, ↑broomweed, ↑broom-weed, ↑Gutierrezia texana
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\\ˌgüd.ēəˈrēzh(ē)ə\ nounUsage: capitalized
: a genus of American herbs or low shrubs (family Compositae) with alternate linear entire leaves and yellow flower heads in corymbose clusters — see matchweed
Useful english dictionary. 2012.