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SALT TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does salt tree mean?
• SALT TREE (noun)
The noun SALT TREE has 1 sense:
1. spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms
Familiarity information: SALT TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Halimodendron argenteum; Halimodendron halodendron; salt tree
Hypernyms ("salt tree" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("salt tree" is a member of...):
genus Halimodendron; Halimodendron (one species: salt tree)
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