cotton bush

noun

any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock

On them the grass was excellent, with a good deal of cotton-bush and saltbush amongst it.

Beyond it is a stony cotton-bush flat, and on it numerous white clay-holes of water, almost hidden by the herbage.

It seemed a strange place for a fight—that hot, lonely, cotton-bush plain.

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