Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A shrub (Pushia tridentata) of the rose family found in western North America, having bitter-tasting leaves and often browsed by deer, elk, and pronghorn.
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- noun Any member of the
genus Purshia offlowering shrubs , native to westernNorth America .
Etymologies
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Examples
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At the base of the mountains, on the gentle rocky slopes called bajadas, the vegetation is dominated by paloverde, ocotillo, and saguaro, but bitterbrush is also a common shrub.
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Understory vegetation varies with elevation; at lower elevations, antelope bitterbrush is important winter browse for deer.
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Ecoregion 13aa differs from the Lahontan Sagebrush Slopes (13k) in that plants with slightly higher moisture requirements, such as antelope bitterbrush and desert peach, may be associated with the semiarid shrub community, especially near the Sierra Nevada front.
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Other important plants in the sagebrush belt are antelope bitterbrush, shadscale, fourwing saltbush, rubber rabbitbrush, spiny hopsage, horsebrush, and short-statured Gambel oak.
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Western juniper grows on shallow, rocky soils with an understory of low sagebrush, big sagebrush, bitterbrush, and bunchgrasses.
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Mountain mahogany and bitterbrush provide winter cover and forage for mule deer.
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The understory includes sagebrush, antelope bitterbrush, and a fire-maintained chaparral component of snowbrush and manzanita.
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Many are dominated by grasses, but some are covered largely by sagebrush and other shrubs, such as antelope bitterbrush.
Southern Rocky Mountain Steppe - OpenWoodland - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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Rodents, songbirds, and upland game birds also use the fruits of bitterbrush.
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The Subarus tires whined along the asphalt, a stray gray thread in the khaki weavesage and hardpan, cheatgrass and bitterbrush.
Burned Ellen Hopkins 2008
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