tumbleweed 
1. any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass • Hypernyms: weed 2. prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States • Syn: Russian thistle, Russian tumbleweed, Russian cactus, Salsola kali tenuifolia • Hypernyms: shrub, bush 3. bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds • Syn: winged pigweed, Cycloloma atriplicifolium • Hypernyms: shrub, bush • Member Holonyms: Cycloloma, genus Cycloloma 4. bushy plant of western United States • Syn: Amaranthus albus, Amaranthus graecizans • Hypernyms: amaranth
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