Akademik

beach heather

noun

small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America

• Syn: ↑poverty grass, ↑Hudsonia tomentosa

• Hypernyms: ↑subshrub, ↑suffrutex

• Member Holonyms: ↑Hudsonia, ↑genus Hudsonia

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noun

: a plant of the genus Hudsonia; especially : a small heathlike plant (H. tomentosa) growing on beaches in northeastern No. America

Useful english dictionary. 2012.