groundsel tree

noun
a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
Also called consumption weed.


Origin:
1735–45

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groundsel tree

noun
a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts 
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
Here it commonly occurs with groundsel tree to form the salt bush community.
Yaupon, wax myrtle, groundsel tree and greenbrier populate the area.
Shrubs include wax myrtle, red bay and groundsel tree.
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