BATIS MARITIMA

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Meaning:

Low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves

Synonyms:

Batis maritima; saltwort

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Batis maritima" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("Batis maritima" is a member of...):

Batis; genus Batis (small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs)

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