tumbleweed
pronunciation
How to pronounce tumbleweed in British English:
UK [ˈtʌmblwi:d]
How to pronounce tumbleweed in American English:
US [ˈtʌmbəlˌwid]
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- Noun:
- any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
- prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
- bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
- bushy plant of western United States
Word Origin
- tumbleweed (n.)
- also tumble-weed, 1881, from tumble (v.) + weed (n.).
Example
- 1. His tumbleweed tiny house company sells small ready-made houses as well as plans for slightly larger ones .
- 2. The fifth-generation cadillac seville hit the uk showrooms in april 1998 and was greeted by whistling wind and passing tumbleweed .
- 3. Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters , when he rebukes them they flee far away , driven before the wind like chaff on the hills , like tumbleweed before a gale .
- 4. When connecting to tumbleweed 's secure transport server over ftps using a client certificate , using " site auth " will tell the server to retrieve the username from the certificate .