mule-fat

[ myool-fat ]

noun
  1. a composite shrub, Baccharis viminea, of California, having willowlike leaves and clustered flowers, growing in riverbeds.

Origin of mule-fat

1
First recorded in 1930–35; so called from its being a source of food for mule deer

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