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SALTBUSH

• SALTBUSH (noun)
The noun SALTBUSH has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: SALTBUSH used as a noun is very rare.

• SALTBUSH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("saltbush" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saltbush"):

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)

Holonyms ("saltbush" is a member of...):

Atriplex; genus Atriplex (orach; saltbush)

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