Definitions
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- noun Any of various
plants in thegenus Suaeda.
Etymologies
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seep + weed
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Examples
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Floodplains have alkaline soils that support greasewood, alkali sacaton, seepweed, and shadscale.
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Greasewood, inland saltgrass, and seepweed grow in more alkaline soil, and Wyoming big sagebrush, basin big sagebrush, and associated grasses dominate better drained, less alkaline soils.
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Plant life is poor, both in number of species and number of plants; seapurslane, western seepweed, and an algae species are the only plants on the salt plains proper, whereas little bluestem occurs on isolated mounds.
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Floodplains have alkaline soils that support greasewood, alkali sacaton, seepweed, and shadscale.
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