Found 2 items, similar to Sarcobatus vermiculatus.
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Definition: Sarcobatus vermiculatus
Sarcobatus vermiculatus
n : low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils
of western America [syn:
greasewood,
black greasewood]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sarcobatus vermiculatus
Grease
\Grease\ (gr[=e]s), n. [OE. grese, grece, F. graisse;
akin to gras fat, greasy, fr. LL. grassus thick, fat, gross,
L. crassus. Cf.
Crass.]
1. Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft
state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Far.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the
ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing
dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration,
and fungous excrescences.
[1913 Webster]
Grease bush. (Bot.) Same as
Grease wood (below).
Grease moth (Zo["o]l.), a pyralid moth (
Aglossa pinguinalis
) whose larva eats greasy cloth, etc.
Grease wood (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat
prickly shrub (
Sarcobatus vermiculatus) of the Spinach
family, very abundant in alkaline valleys from the upper
Missouri to California. The name is also applied to other
plants of the same family, as several species of
Atriplex and
Obione.
[1913 Webster]
greasewood
\greasewood\ n.
A low hardy much-branched spiny shrub (
Sarcobatus vermiculatus
) common in alkaline soils of Western America.
Syn: black greasewood,
Sarcobatus vermiculatus.
[WordNet 1.5]
greasewood
\greasewood\ n.
A low hardy much-branched spiny shrub (
Sarcobatus vermiculatus
) common in alkaline soils of Western America.
Syn: black greasewood,
Sarcobatus vermiculatus.
[WordNet 1.5]
Chico
\Chi"co\, n.
1. Var. of
Chica.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. The common greasewood of the western United States
(
Sarcobatus vermiculatus).
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. In the Philippines, the sapodilla or its fruit; also, the
marmalade tree or its fruit.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]