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SALT TREE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms
Synonyms:
Halimodendron argenteum; Halimodendron halodendron; salt tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("salt tree" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("salt tree" is a member of...):
genus Halimodendron; Halimodendron (one species: salt tree)