tumbleweed
noun [U] /ˈtʌm.bl̩.wiːd/Definition
› a plant of North America and Australia that breaks near the ground when it dies and is then rolled about in large balls by the windCommon plants
(Definition of tumbleweed noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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