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noun
Any of several species of genus Salsola and its close relatives, prickly shrublike annuals, especially Salsola tragus (syn. Kali tragus, which is the best-known kind of tumbleweed in the US.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Salsola australis
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
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noun
prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Russian tumbleweed, Russian cactus, tumbleweed, Salsola kali tenuifolia
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Broader terms: shrub, bush
History
From Russian + thistle: believed to have been introduced to North America from Russia, and is prickly like a thistle.
Across languages
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