thimbleweed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles
    Anemone cylindrica.

WordNet


Thim"ble*weed` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.

Webster 1913