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saltbush

DEFINITIONS OF: saltbush

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n any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil

Types:
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
Type of:
bush, shrub
a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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