GREASEWOOD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America

Synonyms:

black greasewood; greasewood; Sarcobatus vermiculatus

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("greasewood" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("greasewood" is a member of...):

genus Sarcobatus; Sarcobatus (one species: greasewood)

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