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salt·bush  (sôltbsh)

n.

Any of several salt-tolerant plants of the genus Atriplex, especially A. hortensis of Asia, grown for greens and ornament.

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saltbush

Noun

a shrub that grow in alkaline

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saltbush - any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil Atriplex, genus Atriplex - orach; 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 bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems