Lexic.us

Definition of Creosote bush

1. Noun. Desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers.

Definition of Creosote bush

1. Noun. The medicinal herb ''Larrea tridentata''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Creosote Bush

Literary usage of Creosote bush

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Campfires on Desert and Lava by William Temple Hornaday (1908)
"... of Green Wands—The Octopus of the Desert—The Iron-wood Tree—The Omnipresent creosote bush, and Its Purpose. ON looking over my notes of the things seen ..."

2. Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution by Frederick Vernon Coville, Daniel Trembly MacDougal (1903)
"At the station Hesperia the juniper ends and the creosote bush ... As still lower elevations are reached, the creosote bush becomes, ..."

3. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"The most plentiful shrub growing in our southern desert regions is the creosote-bush, so called because its sticky leaves burn with a black smoke and a rank ..."

4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
""The creosote bush {Larrea tridentata) is the most conspicuous, most widely distributed, and best known bush of the torrid deserts of the southwest, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Of the more distinctly desert associations is Spalding's creosote-bush ... To the most rigorous of these conditions the creosote-bush is the last to succumb ..."

Other Resources: