Usually means: Dry, rolling weed, desert symbol.
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  1. tumbleweed: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tumbleweed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tumbleweed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tumbleweed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tumbleweed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tumbleweed, tumbleweed: Wordnik
  7. tumbleweed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tumbleweed: Wiktionary
  9. tumbleweed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tumbleweed: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tumbleweed: Dictionary.com
  12. Tumbleweed (band), Tumbleweed (diaspore), Tumbleweed (disambiguation), Tumbleweed (film), Tumbleweed (song), Tumbleweed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Tumbleweed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. tumbleweed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. tumbleweed: Rhymezone
  16. Tumbleweed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. tumbleweed: Free Dictionary
  18. tumbleweed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. tumbleweed: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. tumbleweed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

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  1. tumbleweed: Encyclopedia

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  3. tumbleweed: Medical dictionary

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noun:  Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place; as Russian thistle, wild indigo, witch grass, Amaranthus albus, etc.
noun:  (attributive) Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds.
noun:  A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.

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