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SALTBUSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("saltbush" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saltbush"):
Atriplex hymenelytra; desert holly (handsome low saltbush of arid southwestern United States and Mexico having blue-green prickly-edged leaves often used for Christmas decoration)
Atriplex lentiformis; quail brush; quail bush; white thistle (spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico)
Holonyms ("saltbush" is a member of...):
Atriplex; genus Atriplex (orach; saltbush)
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