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Definition of Quail brush
1. Noun. Spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quail Brush
Literary usage of Quail brush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outdoor Heritage by Harold Child Bryant (1919)
"Several other species of Atriplex including quail brush are found. The only plant
on the Mojave Desert which assumes sufficient size to be thought a tree is ..."
2. The Game Birds of California by Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer (1918)
"Impenetrable thickets of mesquite, quail brush, catclaw and ironwood afford safe
retreats as long as the use of wings is unnecessary. ..."
3. The Game Birds of California by Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer (1918)
"I It runs with astonishing rapidity and usually seeks to escape in this manner
rather than by flying. Impenetrable thickets of mesquite, quail brush, ..."
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