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, ↑consumption weed, ↑cotton-seed tree, ↑Baccharis halimifolia
• Member Holonyms: ↑Baccharis, ↑genus Baccharis
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noun or groundsel tree : a No. American maritime shrub or small tree (Baccharis halimifolia) with leaves resembling those of groundsel; broadly : a plant of the genus Baccharis
Useful english dictionary. 2012.