| NOUN | plant | saltbush | any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil |
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| Meaning | Any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil. | |
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| Member of | Atriplex, genus Atriplex | orach |
| Narrower | desert holly, Atriplex hymenelytra | handsome low saltbush of arid southwestern United States and Mexico having blue-green prickly-edged leaves often used for Christmas decoration |
| quail bush, quail brush, white thistle, Atriplex lentiformis | Spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico | |
| Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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