MATCHWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does matchweed mean? 

• MATCHWEED (noun)
  The noun MATCHWEED has 1 sense:

1. any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches

  Familiarity information: MATCHWEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATCHWEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

matchbush; matchweed

Hypernyms ("matchweed" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "matchweed"):

Gutierrezia microcephala; little-head snakeweed (similar to Gutierrezia sarothrae but with flower heads having fewer rays and disk flowers)

broom snakeroot; broom snakeweed; Gutierrezia sarothrae; rabbit-weed; rabbitweed; snakeweed; turpentine weed (low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads)

broom-weed; broomweed; Gutierrezia texana (annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("matchweed" is a member of...):

genus Gutierrezia; Gutierrezia (sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America)