saltbush
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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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 WillsUsed 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. PatersonAfar to the left was a stone building, solitary in a waste of saltbush and dead-finish scrub.
Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete | Gilbert ParkerIves followed, though he could see nothing but sand and saltbush in the direction indicated.
The Shadow of a Man | E. W. HornungThe vegetation in this neighbourhood seems nearly dead, excepting the saltbush.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria | William Landsborough
British Dictionary definitions for saltbush
/ (ˈsɔːltˌbʊʃ) /
any of various chenopodiaceous shrubs of the genus Atriplex that grow in alkaline desert regions
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