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GROUNDSEL BUSH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does groundsel bush mean?
• GROUNDSEL BUSH (noun)
The noun GROUNDSEL BUSH has 1 sense:
1. a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts
Familiarity information: GROUNDSEL BUSH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Baccharis halimifolia; consumption weed; cotton-seed tree; groundsel bush; groundsel tree
Hypernyms ("groundsel bush" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("groundsel bush" is a member of...):
Baccharis; genus Baccharis (shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion control)
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