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QUAIL BRUSH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quail brush mean?
• QUAIL BRUSH (noun)
The noun QUAIL BRUSH has 1 sense:
1. spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico
Familiarity information: QUAIL BRUSH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Atriplex lentiformis; quail brush; quail bush; white thistle
Hypernyms ("quail brush" is a kind of...):
saltbush (any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil)
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