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shadscales

shadscales is the plural of shadscale.

Meaning of shadscale

Noun

shadscale (countable and uncountable, plural shadscales)

  1. An evergreen shrub, Atriplex confertifolia.
    • At areas of slightly higher elevations, soils were less salty and supported a cold desert chenopod shrub community consisting predominately of shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia) and gray molly (Kochia americana).2015 October 15, “Evaluation of Scat Deposition Transects versus Radio Telemetry for Developing a Species Distribution Model for a Rare Desert Carnivore, the Kit Fox”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about shadscales

What is shadscales the plural of?
Shadscales is the plural of shadscale.

Words near shadscales in the dictionary

  1. Shadrachs
  2. Shadrick
  3. Shadricks
  4. shads
  5. shadscale
  6. shadscales
  7. shaduf
  8. shadufs
  9. Shadwell
  10. Shadwells
  11. Shadwick

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