tumbleweed
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- anemochory
- Subclass of
- weed
- Image
- Tumbleweed on W Lone Mtn Rd.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tumbleweeds
- topic's main category
- Category:Tumbleweeds
- means of locomotion
- rotating locomotion in living systems
- different from
- Carabus
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Plants that form tumbleweeds
- Environmental effects
- Society and culture
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
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A tumbleweed is any structural part of the above-ground anatomy of a number of species of plants. It is a diaspore that, once mature and dry, detaches from its root or stem and rolls due to the force of the wind. It is also the name used for these types of plants.
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