snakeweed

[ sneyk-weed ]

noun

1. bistort ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of snakeweed¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; snake + weed ¹

Example Sentences

Dryland Wilds captures the true scent of New Mexico by imbuing its soaps, perfumes and lip tints with such native flora as sagebrush, snakeweed, rosehip and thistle.

From Washington Post

A meal of frozen possum stewed with lichens, snakeweed, and lousewort.

From Literature

Make four bundles tie them with yucca spruce mixed with charcoal from burned weeds snakeweed and gramma grass and rock sage.

From Literature

Above him, nighthawks fluttered jaggedly, uttering their deep resonant beeps; a touch of sensual peace and magic lay like a mist across the sagebrush and snakeweed mesa.

From Literature

It moved here, to remote ranchlands where even the plant names — catclaw, saltbush, snakeweed — sound forbidding.

From Time