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单词 salt cedar
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Definition of salt cedar in English:

salt cedar

noun
North American
  • A European tamarisk with reddish-brown branches and feathery grey foliage.

    Tamarix gallica, family Tamaricaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Along with tree-planting efforts, crews are laboring to remove the invasive salt cedar, which monopolizes water supplies and crowds out natives.
    • Along many canals, settlers had planted native cottonwood trees or imported species, like poplars, salt cedars, and pecans, at regular intervals.
    • The construction of upstream dams and the resulting controls over the river flow have prevented floods, allowing non-native plants such as salt cedar to colonize the area and alter the natural ecology.
    • I breathe in the salt cedars, the bushes pearled with skin petals that seem to sweat.
    • In the early 20th century, the springs became overrun with non-native mosquitofish, which were introduced for mosquito control, and choked with salt cedar trees (Tamarix spp.), introduced to stabilize embankments.
 
 

Definition of salt cedar in US English:

salt cedar

noun
North American
  • A tamarisk with reddish-brown branches and feathery gray foliage.

    Tamarix gallica, family Tamaricaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the early 20th century, the springs became overrun with non-native mosquitofish, which were introduced for mosquito control, and choked with salt cedar trees (Tamarix spp.), introduced to stabilize embankments.
    • The construction of upstream dams and the resulting controls over the river flow have prevented floods, allowing non-native plants such as salt cedar to colonize the area and alter the natural ecology.
    • Along with tree-planting efforts, crews are laboring to remove the invasive salt cedar, which monopolizes water supplies and crowds out natives.
    • I breathe in the salt cedars, the bushes pearled with skin petals that seem to sweat.
    • Along many canals, settlers had planted native cottonwood trees or imported species, like poplars, salt cedars, and pecans, at regular intervals.
 
 
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