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Look up: tumbleweed

  1. tumbleweed
    [n] - any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass 2. [n] - bushy plant of western United States
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. tumbleweed
    <botany> Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  3. tumbleweed
    noun any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  4. tumbleweed
    Amaranthus graecizans noun bushy plant of western United States
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Tumbleweed
    • (n.) Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. tumbleweed
    tumbleweed, any of several plants, particularly abundant in prairie and steppe regions, that commonly break from their roots at maturity and, drying into a rounded tangle of light, stiff branches, roll before the wind, covering long distances and scattering seed as they go. The Russian thistle—...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08496

  7. Tumbleweed
    Describes one who is NO JOY, BLIND, and rapidly losing situation awareness, in a request for directive commentary and orientation. Colloquially NO TALLY; NO VISUAL, NO CLUE!
    Found on http://www.f-16.net/glossary-T.html

  8. Tumbleweed
    (band) `Tumbleweed` are a Wollongong-based rock group in Australia, popular during the grunge years of the 1990s. As an opening band for Nirvana on their 1992 tour of Australia, Tumbleweed reached out into the mainstream with their crunchy-psychedelica. The band were signed to the Polydor lab...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbleweed

  9. Tumbleweed
    A `tumbleweed` is the above-ground part of a plant that, once mature and dry, disengages from the root and tumbles away in the wind. Usually, the tumbleweed is the entire plant apart from the roots, but in a few species it is a flower cluster.<ref name="Ganong1921p359">--> The tumblewee...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbleweed

  10. Tumbleweed
    (disambiguation) `Tumbleweed` is a kind of plant habit or structure `Tumbleweed`, `tumble-weed`, `tumble weed`, and similar may also refer to: Plants with "tumbleweed" in a common name: Films: Music: Other: See also:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbleweed

  11. Tumbleweed
    (song) "`Tumbleweed`" is a single by American country music artist Sylvia. Released in 1980, it was the second single from the album Drifter. The song reached #10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.--> Chart performance: !align="left"|Cha...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbleweed



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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