Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants having small barbed or clinging fruits, such as ragweed.
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- noun Any of various unrelated
plants that haveseeds that stick to clothing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing
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Examples
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She saw her at last, far up the field, the hickory doll on one arm while with the other she fought something with a dried stickweed longer than she was tall.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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Gertie heard her cries of “Sooey, Sooey,” saw the stickweed break the air, but for all her fierce fighting Cassie was losing ground before the enemy, running backward at times down the hill.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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Cassie whirled about, dropped the stickweed, and came running, laughing.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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In the clear evening a wagon sped along towards the east, through the saffron marshes, tramping down the stickweed and ironweed and the golden rod, and, while the people in it cowered close, the negro driver sang, as carelessly as if he was the lord of the country:
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
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