noun
a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts
• Syn: ↑groundsel tree, ↑groundsel bush, ↑consumption weed, ↑Baccharis halimifolia
• Member Holonyms: ↑Baccharis, ↑genus Baccharis
Useful english dictionary. 2012.