tumbleweed†

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a plant, as Amaranthus graecizans, whose upper part breaks off from the root in autumn and is driven about by the wind.

Quotations

1922

. . . many a detour I made with pounding heart, to find only a prairie boulder or a lump of tumbleweed blown into a wolf willow.

1961

That essay just rolled along like tumbleweed. I put down all about how Jake can tell the weather and witch water wells.