tarweed
nounEtymology From tar + weed.
1
Any of various American flowering plants that have sticky leaves.
- Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.1944, Oregon. Agricultural experiment station, Circular of Information - Issues 323-395, page 3:
- 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.1951, Practical Butter Manufacture, a Manual for Buttermakers, page 25:
- Derived terms
- common tarweed, island tarweed