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Definition of Tarweed

1. Noun. Any of various resinous glandular plants of the genus Madia; of western North and South America.

2. Noun. Any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock.

Definition of Tarweed

1. n. A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia.

Definition of Tarweed

1. a flowering plant [n -S]

Medical Definition of Tarweed

1. A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, especially. To the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Tarweed

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1. The Californian Illustrated Magazine by Charles Frederick Holder, Edward James Livernash (1893)
"With it are numbered the forget-me-nots, {Myosotis) ; the creeping heliotrope ; the tarweed, (Amsinckia) ; and the blue ..."

2. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1914)
"One caterpillar of the moth was found eating the tarweed. The larva was about one and ... This time I took a good supply of the food plant (tarweed). ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1880)
"They are the blue tarweed (Trichostema ... zonia truncate), white tarweed (Hemizonia ... yellow tarweed (Hemizonia corymbosa). ..."

4. A flora of western middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"AI. elegant. with slender hairs and beset with pedicellate very viscid glands, ill-scented; 1. M. sativa Molina. CHILE tarweed. ..."

5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"The fire had leaped the cleared path and was busily eating in all directions through the short, pitchy growth of tarweed. It was as yet only a tiny leak, ..."

6. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1892)
"North of Sacramento, in Yuba, Butte, and Tehama counties, this "tarweed" is replaced by another, known as Layia glandulosa, a low-growing, viscid, ..."

7. With the Flowers and Trees in California by Charles Francis Saunders (1914)
"That is common sense and good business—the principle of reducing expenses when receipts are small— and what enables the tarweed to do this when most other ..."

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