saltbush

[ sawlt-boosh ]

/ ˈsɔltˌbʊʃ /

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noun

any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Atriplex, having mostly alternate leaves and clusters of inconspicuous flowers, often growing in saline or alkaline soil.

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Origin of saltbush

1860–65; salt¹ + bush¹, so called because they thrive in saline or alkaline soils

Words nearby saltbush

saltatory evolution, saltatory spasm, salt away, salt bath, salt-box, saltbush, salt cake, salt cedar, saltcellar, salt chuck, saltchucker

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How to use saltbush in a sentence

The grass and saltbush are everywhere abundant, and water is plentiful with every appearance of permanence.
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia|William John Wills
Used as a grazing crop, saltbush can grow in arid, saline, or alkaline conditions; the region where saltbush grows.
Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses|A. B. Paterson
Afar to the left was a stone building, solitary in a waste of saltbush and dead-finish scrub.
Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete|Gilbert Parker
Ives followed, though he could see nothing but sand and saltbush in the direction indicated.
The Shadow of a Man|E. W. Hornung

The vegetation in this neighbourhood seems nearly dead, excepting the saltbush.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria|William Landsborough

British Dictionary definitions for saltbush

saltbush

/ (ˈsɔːltˌbʊʃ) /

noun

any of various chenopodiaceous shrubs of the genus Atriplex that grow in alkaline desert regions

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