thimbleweed

[ thim-buhl-weed ]

noun

1. any of several plants having a thimble-shaped fruiting head, especially either of two white-flowered North American plants, Anemone riparia or A. virginiana.

thimbleweed

/ ˈθɪmbəlˌwiːd /

noun

1. any of various plants having a thimble-shaped fruit, esp an American anemone, Anemone virginiana, and a rudbeckia, Rudbeckia laciniata

Word History and Origins

Origin of thimbleweed¹

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35; thimble + weed ¹

Example Sentences

Gilbert was again at the helm in “Return to Monkey island” alongside longtime collaborator Dave Grossman, and what could have simply been a celebration of all things retro — see Gilbert’s own 2017 game “Thimbleweed Park” — was instead a relatively thoughtful meditation on getting older.

From Los Angeles Times

While “Thimbleweed Park” excels in crafting contrasting characters and building narrative tension out of each puzzle, it remained only a critical and crowd-funding success.

From Los Angeles Times

But I wrote that blog entry before I had done Thimbleweed Park.

From The Verge

I do think a lot of what I wanted to do with pixel art and making a game that was a little bit of a throwback game, I think I really kind of did that with Thimbleweed Park.

From The Verge

So it was more than Thimbleweed Park, but it wasn’t exponentially more than Thimbleweed Park was.

From The Verge