Wiktionary

saltbush

English edit

  This entry needs a photograph or drawing for illustration. Please try to find a suitable image on Wikimedia Commons or upload one there yourself!
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology edit

From salt +‎ bush.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

saltbush (countable and uncountable, plural saltbushes)

  1. Any of the genus Atriplex of plants, especially Atriplex hortensis or Atriplex patula, found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach, including many desert and seashore plants and halophytes.
    Synonym: orach
    • 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 4:
      The sand is cold beneath our bare feet and the dunes damp and spicy with marram grass and saltbush.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 186:
      The blasting music, not reduced one notch, continues to flow beautifully into the static of the surrounding saltbush, conveying the aura of the religiously spiritual in all worlds.
  2. Sarcobatus vermiculatus (black greasewood, greasewood, seepwood)
  3. Baccharis halimifolia
    Synonyms: consumption weed, eastern baccharis, groundsel bush, sea myrtle

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

See also edit

References edit

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=saltbush&oldid=78546743"