tumbleweed
- n any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
- n prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
- n bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
- n bushy plant of western United States
- San Francisco tries regulating poetry readings in coffeehouses Rupert Redux (The Week: Society) Scenes From Parenthood Is she vengeful? Is he a moral tumbleweed?.
- It was not until John Ford picked him up in his superwestern Stagecoach (1939) that Wayne began to get out of the tumbleweed into the limelight.
- The winds off the plains of western Nebraska drive swirls of grit and tumbleweed past the brick laboratories of Hiram Scott College, and the 1,500 students have all departed.