English noun: groundsel tree | |||
1. | groundsel tree (plant) a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts | ||
Synonyms | Baccharis halimifolia, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel bush | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bush, shrub | ||
Member meronym | Baccharis, genus Baccharis | ||