saltbush

[ sawlt-boosh ]

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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.

saltbush

/ ˈsɔːltˌbʊʃ /

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

1860–65; salt ¹ + bush ¹, so called because they thrive in saline or alkaline soils

The grass and saltbush are everywhere abundant, and water is plentiful with every appearance of permanence.

Used as a grazing crop, saltbush can grow in arid, saline, or alkaline conditions; the region where saltbush grows.

Afar to the left was a stone building, solitary in a waste of saltbush and dead-finish scrub.

Ives followed, though he could see nothing but sand and saltbush in the direction indicated.

The vegetation in this neighbourhood seems nearly dead, excepting the saltbush.

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