English noun: Baccharis halimifolia | |||
1. | Baccharis halimifolia (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 | consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel bush, groundsel tree | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bush, shrub | ||
Member meronym | Baccharis, genus Baccharis | ||