QUAIL BUSH

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Meaning:

Spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico

Synonyms:

Atriplex lentiformis; quail brush; quail bush; white thistle

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("quail bush" is a kind of...):

saltbush (any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil)

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