Definition of saltbush in English:
saltbush
nounˈsɒltbʊʃˈsɔːltbʊʃˈsɔltˌbʊʃ
A salt-tolerant orache plant sometimes used in the reclamation of saline soils or to provide grazing in areas of salty soil.
Genus Atriplex, family Chenopodiaceae: several species, in particular the Australian A. vesicaria
Example sentencesExamples
- As their name suggests, saltbushes have high tissue concentrations of salt.
- New flora grew on the shore: Desert scrub, creosote bush, saltbush, and tamarisk.
- A fruit commonly consumed by Silvereyes is the small, polymorphic berry (red, yellow, or white) of the fragrant saltbush.
- The saltbush Atriplex halimus is a chenopodiaceous plant well adapted to dry saline habitats and widely distributed in the Mediterranean Basin.
- Saltbushes are well-adapted to grow in salty or alkaline sites where the soils are silty or gravelly and thus retain little water. ...
Definition of saltbush in US English:
saltbush
nounˈsôltˌbo͝oSHˈsɔltˌbʊʃ
A salt-tolerant orache plant sometimes used in the reclamation of saline soils or to provide grazing in areas of salty soil.
Genus Atriplex, family Chenopodiaceae: several species, including the four-wing saltbushA. canescens of the western US
Example sentencesExamples
- As their name suggests, saltbushes have high tissue concentrations of salt.
- A fruit commonly consumed by Silvereyes is the small, polymorphic berry (red, yellow, or white) of the fragrant saltbush.
- The saltbush Atriplex halimus is a chenopodiaceous plant well adapted to dry saline habitats and widely distributed in the Mediterranean Basin.
- Saltbushes are well-adapted to grow in salty or alkaline sites where the soils are silty or gravelly and thus retain little water. ...
- New flora grew on the shore: Desert scrub, creosote bush, saltbush, and tamarisk.