turpentine weed

Questions about turpentine weed

What does turpentine weed mean?

turpentine weed means "low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads".

What is another word for turpentine weed?

Close synonyms include rabbitweed, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeweed, broom snakeroot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is turpentine weed a common word?

turpentine weed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.