saltbush

/sawlt-boosh/US // ˈsɔltˌbʊʃ //UK // (ˈsɔːltˌbʊʃ) //

盐草,盐巴,盐碱地,咸猪手

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Atriplex, having mostly alternate leaves and clusters of inconspicuous flowers, often growing in saline or alkaline soil.

The grass and saltbush are everywhere abundant, and water is plentiful with every appearance of permanence.
Used as a grazing crop, saltbush can grow in arid, saline, or alkaline conditions; the region where saltbush grows.
Afar to the left was a stone building, solitary in a waste of saltbush and dead-finish scrub.
Ives followed, though he could see nothing but sand and saltbush in the direction indicated.
The vegetation in this neighbourhood seems nearly dead, excepting the saltbush.