nitre bush

English

Noun

nitre bush (countable and uncountable, plural nitre bushes)

  1. Any flowering plant of the genus Nitraria, family Nitrariaceae, native to Africa, Europe, Asia, Russia and Australia.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97:
      These habitats were most evident on the Iberian Peninsula where, by 15 million years ago, members of the thorn-rose genus (Neurada), esparto grass, honey mesquite and nitre bush (Nitraria) flourished in arid shrublands.
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