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greasewood::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | black greasewood, sarcobatus vermiculatus |
| Type of | bush, shrub |
Examples of greasewood
greasewood
Now I was surrounded by greasewood, tumble-weed and jagged peaks, some with snow.
From the independent.co.uk
He culled his herd and watched greasewood wither during droughts.
From the bloomberg.com
Sage, rabbit brush and greasewood are the primary plant life that thrive in the harsh soil around the lake.
From the sacbee.com
If pumping kills the greasewood, dust storms that plague his town of Callao would soar 5,000 feet into the sky, he says.
From the bloomberg.com
Last year, Mulroy got into a fight over greasewood with Tim Durbin, a hydrologist who'd once been a consultant for her.
From the bloomberg.com
A few steps away, a 5-foot barbed-wire fence cut through the cactus and greasewood, separating the United States from Mexico.
From the latimes.com
We bumped through another field to check out the greasewood, a native species that serves as a monitor for the land's condition.
From the sltrib.com
The valley floor is riverless and almost perfectly flat, a sea of blue-gray sagebrush and greasewood in sandy reddish soil carried in by wind and water.
From the theatlantic.com
Burnham told of the familiar smell of kerosene, mutton fat, sheep pelts, flour and greasewood smoke that drew him back to his roots when he walked into a Shiprock trading post in 1960.
From the denverpost.com
Salt Lake and Utah counties have sued in a Nevada court, alleging that pumping water from the Snake Valley aquifer would kill the greasewood and other vegetation that holds soil in place.
From the sltrib.com
- Low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America
- Greasewood (Sarcobatus) is a genus of one or two species of flowering plants. Traditionally it has been treated in the family Chenopodiaceae, but the APG II system, of 2003, places it in the family Sarcobataceae.
