Definitions for saltbush

saltbush salt·bush

Spelling: [sawlt-boo sh]
IPA: /ˈsɔltˌbʊʃ/

Saltbush is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 251 anagrams from letters in saltbush (abhlsstu).

Definitions for saltbush

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.

Origin of saltbush

1860-65; salt1 + bush1, so called because they thrive in saline or alkaline soils

Examples for saltbush

For the first seven miles over rough trap hills lightly grassed, when we entered samphire and saltbush flats for four miles.

The grass and saltbush are everywhere abundant, and water is plentiful with every appearance of permanence.

On them the grass was excellent, with a good deal of cotton-bush and saltbush amongst it.

What was that thing moving over yonder in that bunch of saltbush?

The vegetation in this neighbourhood seems nearly dead, excepting the saltbush.

The saltbush clumps and spinifex patches conceal hideous reptiles.

The valley floor and valley terraces are dotted with saltbush, rabbitbrush, greasewood, and sagebrush.

Our path in the afternoon lay near the river over low ground, wooded with box, having an undergrowth of saltbush and polygonum.

About these scrubs the grass is very good and there is a luxuriant undergrowth of saltbush and salt herbs.

Among exotics the Australian saltbush spreads successfully over the worst alkali land.

Word Value for saltbush
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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