tumbleweed

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
noun prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
noun bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds

From tumble + weed.

So they went bouncing by like tumbleweeds, or like soap bubbles, and we plugged on toward Xanthus. — A Martian Odyssey, Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

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