creosotebush

Noun

creosote bush (countable and uncountable, plural creosote bushes)

1. A common North American desert shrub used as a medicinal herb, Larrea tridentata.
   • The hills were of conical form, piled upon each other; one of them with a cap of trap; all seemed to be solid basalt thrust up from beneath; a very few cedars and other shrubs; several large kinds of caste and grass tuft between the rocks was all the vegetation, the grass growing finest on the...1848, W.H. Emory, Thirtieth Congress—First Session. Ex. Doc. No. 41. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, California, Including Part of the Arkansas...

   Synonyms:

   creosote, greasewood, chaparral