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nitre bush

nitre bush noun: any flowering plant of the genus Nitraria, family Nitrariaceae, native to Africa, Europe, Asia, Russia and Australia.

Noun

nitre bush (countable and uncountable, plural nitre bushes)

  1. Any flowering plant of the genus Nitraria, family Nitrariaceae, native to Africa, Europe, Asia, Russia and Australia.
    • These habitats were most evident on the Iberian Peninsula where, by 15 million years ago, members of the thorn-rose genus (Neurada), esparto grass, honey mesquite and nitre bush (Nitraria) flourished in arid shrublands.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97

Forms of nitre bush

pluralnitre bushes

Questions about nitre bush

What does nitre bush mean?
Nitre bush means any flowering plant of the genus Nitraria, family Nitrariaceae, native to Africa, Europe, Asia, Russia and Australia.
What part of speech is nitre bush?
Nitre bush is a noun.
What is the plural of nitre bush?
The plural of nitre bush is nitre bushes.

Words near nitre bush in the dictionary

  1. nitrats
  2. nitrazepam
  3. nitrazepate
  4. nitrazine
  5. nitre
  6. nitre bush
  7. nitre bushes
  8. nitre goosefoot
  9. nitre of potash
  10. nitrefazole
  11. nitrendipine

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