Definitions
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- noun Any of various
plants in thefamily Asteraceae , including mostspecies of Chrysothamnus and some Ericameria.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Great Basin also contains species with evolutionary ties to warmer climates, such as rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus), blackbrush (Coleogyne), hopsage (grayia) and horsebursh (Tetradymia).
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Despite the snow and wind a flock of horned larks gleaned seed among the sage and rabbitbrush.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The ditches alongside are the same grey noncolor as the dust that coats the sage and rabbitbrush, the banks sloping crumbles of powdery soil that say “not far away from here were once volcanoes.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Despite the snow and wind a flock of horned larks gleaned seed among the sage and rabbitbrush.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The first elk pulled some tufts of hair from its back, then nibbled on sage or rabbitbrush.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The ditches alongside are the same grey noncolor as the dust that coats the sage and rabbitbrush, the banks sloping crumbles of powdery soil that say “not far away from here were once volcanoes.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Today, in the summer twilight at Bird Cloud, the greasewood and rabbitbrush hunch themselves into giant marmots, crippled elk.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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As we left the warm museum a pygmy rabbit sprang from under a clump of rabbitbrush.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The first elk pulled some tufts of hair from its back, then nibbled on sage or rabbitbrush.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Today, in the summer twilight at Bird Cloud, the greasewood and rabbitbrush hunch themselves into giant marmots, crippled elk.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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