Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A species of salt-bush, Kochia pyramidata, belonging to the goosefoot family, native to southeastern Australia. It is a valuable forage-plant in times of drought.
- noun A Mexican shrub, Ceanothus azureus, with abundant blue flowers.
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Examples
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Cattle are contributing to degradation of limited riparian and wetland habitats across the ecoregion and particularly favor bluebush communities around lakes on the Barkly Tableland.
Mitchell grass downs 2007
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The habitat types within these reserves range from eucalypt woodland, chenopod shrubland, bluebush, lancewood, gidgee, and grasslands to Acacia woodlands.
Mitchell grass downs 2007
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Ephemeral lakes of the Barkly Tableland support communities of bluebush (Chenopodium auricomum) and/or coolibah (E. coolibah) low open woodlands.
Mitchell grass downs 2007
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"It's not proper bluebush ink," Zist reminded her.
Dragon's Fire McCaffrey, Anne 2006
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"S" that had been painted there with bluebush ink.
Dragon's Fire McCaffrey, Anne 2006
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The sap of the bluebush, used for marking the Shunned, was indelible and permanently stained skin.
Dragon's Fire McCaffrey, Anne 2006
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When saltbush and bluebush species are sown on saline soils under natural rainfall conditions, there is a delicate balance between temperature and salinity levels and the germination and establishment of the seedlings.
Chapter 9 1990
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Although shrubs such as the saltbush (Atriplex) and bluebush
Chapter 9 1990
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We waited twelve hours, and were about to go, leaving a mark behind us to show we had been there, when we saw the rouseabout and his exhausted horse coming slowly through the bluebush to us.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02 Gilbert Parker 1897
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We waited twelve hours, and were about to go, leaving a mark behind us to show we had been there, when we saw the rouseabout and his exhausted horse coming slowly through the bluebush to us.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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