chamisa
noun
cha·mi·sa shə-ˈmē-sə 
chə-
variants or chamiso
shə-ˈmē-(ˌ)sō
chə-
1
: an evergreen saltbush (Atriplex canescens) having brittle stems, yellow flowers, and winged seeds : four-wing saltbush
2
: a rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa) having flexible hairy stems and yellow flowers : rubber rabbitbrush
Word History
Etymology
American Spanish chamiza, chamizo, ultimately from Spanish chamiza brushwood, kindling, from Portuguese or Galician chamiça, from chama flame, from Latin flamma — more at flame
First Known Use
1900, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- kitbags
- kitchen
- Kitchen Bouquet
- kitchen cabinet
- kitchen cabinets
- kitchen dresser
- kitchen garden
- Kitchen Kaffir
- kitchen match
- kitchen midden
- kitchen middens
- kitchen paper
- kitchen police
- kitchen roll
- kitchen rose
- kitchen stuff
- kitchen towel
- kitchen unit
- kitchen-sink
- kitchened
- Kitchener
- kitchener
- kitcheners
- kitchenets
- kitchenette