any of various plants, as Amaranthus albus, A. graecizans, or the Russian thistle, Salsola kali, whose branching upper parts become detached from the roots and are driven about by the wind.
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The film opens on a tumbleweed blowing through the twilight streets of Los Angeles and closes with a cowboy soliloquy.
But then the movie kind of started skipping along like some tangled tumbleweed of confusion.
Elsewhere Andrew's engagements are met with a deafening silence and the roll of tumbleweed.
When twilight came he had found a perch in a pile of tumbleweed, far from the sheltering bushes by the river.
If he ever came up to a tumbleweed he would lie right down on it and go to sleep.
Besides the cactus, another form of vegetation which began to attract more and more of Ollie's attention was the red tumbleweed.
The ordinary tumbleweed, green when growing and gray when tumbling, had long been familiar to us, but the red variety was new.
The tumbleweed banked high wherever, in the mysterious dispensations of Providence, a call for tumbleweed had made itself heard.