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Definition of Salt tree
1. Noun. Spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms.
Group relationships: Genus Halimodendron, Halimodendron
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Salt Tree
Literary usage of Salt tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"The Salt-tree Robinia, of which the blossoms are purple, is an exception. ...
The Salt-tree grows naturally in salt fields, and will not flower but in a ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"It is found in northwest India and westward, and is sometimes distinguished as
tamarisk salt-tree, from Its secreting salt which incruste its trunk in ..."
3. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"The Salt-tree Robinia, of which the blossoms are purple, is an exception. ...
The Salt-tree grows naturally in salt fields, and will not flower but in a ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"It is found in northwest India and westward, and is sometimes distinguished as
tamarisk salt-tree, from Its secreting salt which incruste its trunk in ..."
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