Russian thistle

Meaning

Noun

• Any of several species of genus Salsola and its close relatives, prickly shrublike annuals, especially Salsola tragus (species) (syn. Kali tragus (species), which is the best-known kind of tumbleweed in the US.
• Salsola australis (species)

Related

Similar words

• prickly Russian thistle

Origin

• From Russian + thistle: believed to have been introduced to North America from Russia, and is prickly like a thistle.