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spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms

1. : a small tree (Halimodendron argenteum) of the family Leguminosae growing in the Caspian salt plains and Siberia

2. : an East Indian tamarisk (Tamarix orientalis) with frequently salt-encrusted twigs

salt tree,

1. a leguminous tree with white, pinnate leaves, growing in central Asia.

2. (in India) a species of tamarisk, the twigs of which are frequently covered with a slight efflorescence of salt.